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Symbolism in handwriting
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Annette Poizner
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May 27, 2011
Abstract
Although semioticians routinely examine the use of signs and symbols in everyday life, they rarely explore symbols embedded within handwriting. Graphology, (handwriting analysis), is an academic discipline that has practitioners analyzing graphic features of handwriting in order to discern the personality of the writer. Graphologists perform a “semiotic read” of signatures, often demonstrating how writers inadvertently express their interests, affiliations or emotional issues by embedding symbols within handwritten script. Handwriting samples are reproduced in order to demonstrate this phenomenon and to introduce the relevance of handwriting to semioticians.
Published Online: 2011-05-27
Published in Print: 2011-June
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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