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The Language of Advertising
Torben Vestergaard
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Paperback. Whenever we pick up a newspaper or magazine, turn on the television or look at the heardings on roadsides, we are confronted with advertisements. These do more than simply sell a product - they work in subtle ways to persuade us to accept the way of life and pattern of our needs that they depict. Num Pages: 182 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KNTY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Whenever we pick up a newspaper or magazine, turn on the television or look at the heardings on roadsides, we are confronted with advertisements. These do more than simply sell a product - they work in subtle ways to persuade us to accept the way of life and pattern of our needs that they depict. This book is a revealing study of the strategies of persuasion advertisers use and of the crucial underlying assupmtions advertising makes.
Whenever we pick up a newspaper or magazine, turn on the television or look at the heardings on roadsides, we are confronted with advertisements. These do more than simply sell a product - they work in subtle ways to persuade us to accept the way of life and pattern of our needs that they depict. This book is a revealing study of the strategies of persuasion advertisers use and of the crucial underlying assupmtions advertising makes.
Focusing on magazien and newspaper advertising, the authors illustrate the reange of linguistic and visual techniques advertisers use to achieve emphasis and special ... Read more
The Language of Advertising is not a book which simply presents the results of an analysis of modern advertising. It seeks throughout to equip the reader with the techniques for his or her own examination of advertising ideology and of the social functions of advertising today.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631127437
SKU
V9780631127437
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Torben Vestergaard
Torben Vestergaard is Professor of English at the University of Aalborg, Denmark Kim Schrode is Research Associate in English at the University of Aarhuss, Denmark, and (1984-5) Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California.
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