The Language of Advertising
Title | The Language of Advertising PDF eBook |
Author | Torben Vestergaard |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Advertising |
ISBN | 9780631107415 |
Advertising Language
Title | Advertising Language PDF eBook |
Author | Keiko Tanaka |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2005-07-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134640463 |
Keiko Tanaka offers an analysis of the linguistic devices that are used in advertisements, looking at the strategems which advertisers employ to gain and retain the attention of their audience. Using relevance theory as a framework, she sets out its key aspects and applies them to the language of written advertising in Britain and Japan. Particular emphasis is placed on `covert communication', puns and metaphors, and the book contains a unique chapter on images of women in Japanese advertising. It is fully illustrated throughout with recent contrasting advertisements drawn from the two countries. The book provides a compelling analysis of the language of advertising, and an exploration of Relevance Theory that will be of interest to scholars in many fields.
The Language of Advertising
Title | The Language of Advertising PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Goddard |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780415278034 |
Drawing on literary and linguistic theory for analysis of texts, this book covers all aspects of advertising language, from the interrelation of language, image and layout to the discourse between 'reader' and advertisement.
Advertising: Using Words as Tools for Selling Second Edition
Title | Advertising: Using Words as Tools for Selling Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Ruta Kalmane |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2012-03-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1471092518 |
Today advertising is merely just a provision of descriptive information about certain goods and services. Advertising has developed over years becoming a manipulative source of information that uses our society's weaknesses in order to benefit financially. This book provides an insight into the world of manipulative advertising language, describing how word interactions influence consumer choices, revealing the most popular ways of advertising claim formation using certain language means. Advertisement examples used in the book are mostly beauty product advertisements that focus on women as a target audience as women are said to be an easy target thanks to their emotionality. The book will be interesting for both, those who trust advertisements (it will make you think twice before buying) and those who already don't.
The Language of Cosmetics Advertising
Title | The Language of Cosmetics Advertising PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Ringrow |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016-09-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137557982 |
This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts. As the global beauty industry expands and consumers become more critical of the claims made, the topic of cosmetics advertising discourse is examined using Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. One common theme underlying most cosmetics advertising discourse is that the female body always requires ‘work’ to fix its ‘problems’: flat skin, dry hair, and so on. The author uses themes of language and gender, media and identity, and advertising across cultures to expose exactly what is going on in the language of cosmetics advertising and to offer a first step towards challenging these ideas and thinking about alternatives.
Ad Critique
Title | Ad Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy R. Tag |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1412980534 |
This volume teaches advertising, marketing and management students how to effectively judge and critique creativity in advertising.
The History of Advertising Language
Title | The History of Advertising Language PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine Gieszinger |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
The discourse of advertising has changed considerably over the past 200 years. This study - based on a corpus of 540 advertisements published in The Times between 1788 and 1996 - outlines how advertisements have developed into a distinctive text type with recurring formal, semantic and functional features. Criteria investigated are the global structure of advertisements, major topics, the use of adjectives, language play, the textual realisation of advertising functions and the emergence of the pictorial message. Although the study focuses on linguistic aspects of advertising, the discussion also includes the influence of extra-linguistic factors, such as socio-economic conditions and the development of the media.