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The Use of Foreign Languagues in Advertising and its Influence on Advertising Message Perception
Dvořák, Dominik ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Schneiderová, Soňa (referee)
DVOŘÁK, Dominik. Použití cizích jazyků v reklamní komunikaci a jejich vliv na percepci reklamního sdělení. Praha, 2019. 45 s. Bakalářská práce (Bc). Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky Katedra marketingové komunikace a PR. Vedoucí diplomové práce PhDr. Tereza Klabíková Rábová, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis explores the use of foreign languages in advertising communication and its influence on advertising message perception. It investigates the question if it's beneficial to borrow words and phrases from foreign languages or whether it's more effective to use solely the native language. In the theoretical part the author shows the historical, linguistic and socio-psychological context of commercial language code-mixing. In the practical part he introduces the qualitative research method of the focus group using 6 pairs of advertisement visuals, containing both the original foreign version and a version entirely adapted to the Czech language. It turns out that the customer's interest in the product can be increased if the foreign language application is aligned with the entire positioning of the product or brand. Its use can give the product a certain feel of uniqueness or exclusiveness. Contrarily, an isolated use of a foreign word without any context of a...
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Exploring discourse strategies in contemporary advertising
CHABR, Ondřej
This diploma thesis deals with an analysis of advertising discourse focusing specifically on the use of language means. To begin with, this thesis defines theoretical knowledge of advertisement and individual language means. Subsequently, I find these language means in the particular cases and comment on their use. The thesis briefly discusses the gender issue in advertising discourse and shows visually different forms of promotion of textual communication act. The aim of the thesis is to present current trends of language means used in the advertising which help its persuasive function.
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Verbal and non-verbal comunication in a representative selection of advertising texts
Marks, Pavel ; Palkosková, Olga (advisor) ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee)
1 ABSTRACT The work deals with the analysis of verbal and nonverbal means of advertising messages in files promoting automobiles and banking products and services through printed brochures and company websites. Advertising texts use elements of journalistic, technical, administrative and artistic styles. Persuasive and attracting functions are dominant for them. These are of the verbal means represented primarily by imperatives, adjectives and adverbs in comparatives and superlatives, by a higher frequency of personal, possessive and totalizing pronouns. Lexically the functions of texts are supported primarily by vocabulary with positive expressivity and terminology of respective field. Enumerations, rhetorical questions, higher splitting of text and placing of persuading means into the rheme of the message are syntactically relevant. These features are also supported by repetition and combination of these means. Of the nonverbal means composition of individual elements within the advertising area, particularly the location of the product and company name, logo, slogan, ratio and layout of text and visual elements, play an important role. Above specified means and combinations thereof can be understood as a strategy of advertising message. Cognitive or affective strategies supported by an appeal to...
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The use of conceptual metaphors in Czech advertising discourse
HAPKOVÁ, Klára
This diploma thesis deals with so-called conceptual metaphors' use in the Czech advertising discourse. The first section of the theoretical part is devoted to advertising and characteristic features of advertising. The second section concentrates on theory of metaphor and introduces readers to cognitive linguistics and one of its objects of interest, conceptual metaphor. In the practical part of the thesis are presented results of analysis concentrating on distribution of conceptual metaphors in advertising texts promoting among others drinks, food, dry goods, fashion, cars and financial products.
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