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What you see here is a normal roll of duct tape. The use of duct tape ranges from taping things together to making a wallet out of the tape. Now, before you leave, let me explain why I'm talking about duct tape. Have you ever thought about what duct tape may signify? Well today, I will explore the semiotics of duct tape.
Looking at the tape, we can determine the tape is round and grey and can stick to things better than normal tape. It, of course, makes things easier to keep together. For example, if you need to bind something together (for this example, we'll use pencils), duct tape will hold the objects together better and longer than regular scotch tape.
Connotative wise, duct tape promotes that it is stronger than any tape (again using the example of it being stronger than scotch tape.) It make anything stick to the surface and will make sure it doesn't get unstuck (revert back to the pencil example.) This also ties into the ideology of duct tape being able to fix anything.
Photo from: instructables.com
People often don't think they are using semiotics when it comes to duct tape. This could be said about a lot of things. Maybe people will think about this the next time they make a wallet out of duct tape.
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