Theoretical frameworks in the study of press advertisements: Polish, English and Chinese perspective

Adam Wojtaszek

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Wojtaszek, Adam. Theoretical frameworks in the study of press advertisements: Polish, English and Chinese perspective. Red. . Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2011, 283 s. ISBN 978-83-60743-42-3

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Table of contentsAcknowledgements /9
Abbreviations used in the text /11
Preface /13
Chapter OneAcademic reflections on the phenomenon of advertising1.1. Introduction /17
1.2. The scope of analysis /19
1.2.1. The medium /21
1.2.2. Analysts’ favourites /25
1.2.2.1. Code-mixing in advertising /26
1.2.2.2. The wordplay in commercials /28
1.2.2.3. The application of gender stereotyping in advertisements /31
1.2.3. Dissecting advertisements /35
1.2.3.1. Illustrative elements: pictures, videos, music, sound effects /35
1.2.3.2. Slogans /37
1.2.3.3. Brand names /39
1.2.3.4. Disclaimers and disclosures /44
1.3. The input/output perspective /46
1.3.1. The content analysis /47
1.3.1.1. The size of the sample /48
1.3.1.2. The selection of focus /48
1.3.1.3. Aspects of bottom-up and top-down design /51
1.3.1.4. Exemplification of inductive content analysis /53
1.3.2. The processing and responses /55
1.3.2.1. The selection of the input material and the area of focus /56
1.3.2.2. The perspective of the subjects’ responses /62
1.3.2.3. The participant characteristics /66
1.3.2.4. Summary /67
Chapter TwoPoliteness Theory in the analysis of advertisements2.1. Introduction /69
2.2. Brown and Levinson’s model /70
2.3. Reflections on politeness, face and the applicability of the model /75
2.4. Modeling the selected aspects of face /78
2.5. Content-analysis-based illustration /80
2.6. The theoretical basis of the study design /87
2.6.1. The materials and the subjects /89
2.6.2. The questionnaire construction /90
2.7. The qualitative investigation /94
2.7.1. The Polish responses /94
2.7.2. The British responses /105
2.7.3. The Chinese responses /110
2.8. The survey-based intercultural comparison /115
Chapter ThreeThe new perspectives3.1. Introduction /124
3.2. Salient meanings in advertisements /125
3.2.1. Graded Salience Hypothesis – an overview /125
3.2.2. Static and dynamic attributes of salience /129
3.2.3. Salience as the feature of linguistic and extra-linguistic units /138
3.2.3.1. The exploitation of font /139
3.2.3.2. Pictorial metonymy /146
3.2.3.3. Visualisations of idiomatic meanings /151
3.2.3.4. Visuals directing the interpretation /155
3.2.3.5. Summary /159
3.2.4. Optimal innovation in press advertisements /160
3.2.4.1. Study design and elicitation method /161
3.2.4.2. Gauging the level of innovativeness /162
3.2.4.3. Measuring the attractiveness of innovation /163
3.2.4.4. Discussion of the results /164
3.2.5. Salience in advertising: the new territory /167
3.3. Dynamic Nature of Context /172
3.3.1. Dynamic Model of Meaning – an overview /173
3.3.2. The perspective of the sender and the recipient /179
3.3.2.1. Reconstruction of the creative process /180
3.3.2.2. Predicting the viewers’ reactions /185
3.3.2.3. Peculiarities of the low-involvement processing of commercial messages /187
3.3.3. The role and components of context in advertising communication /191
3.3.3.1. Activation of multiple consenses /191
3.3.3.2. The Stratified Model of the actual situational context /197
3.3.3.3. Modelling the interpretation of advertisements /204
3.3.4. Expansion and extended application of the model /206
3.4. Summary /215
References /219
Appendix 1Transcript of advertisements used in the study of face-work /239
The Polish advertisements /240
The British advertisements /246
The Chinese advertisements /250
Appendix 2Investigation of the elements of face and face-work /255
The Polish questionnaire /256
The English questionnaire /257
The Chinese questionnaire /258
Appendix 3Investigation of optimal innovation /259
Originality and innovation: Polish version /260
Originality and innovation: English version /261
Appreciation: Polish version /262
Appreciation: English version /263
Index of names /265
Subject index /271

ChapterOne:Academicreflectionsonthephenomenonofadvertising

10202010Code-mixinginadvertising

Focusingfirstontheelementsrelatedtoquitenarrowlyunderstoodlanguage

use,letusstartwiththereflectionuponthestudiesofborrowingsincommercials.

Manyworksoflargerandsmallersizehavebeendevotedtothisissue.Whenitcomes

tothebookformat,wecouldmentionChłopickiandŚwiątek’sstudyofanglicisms

inPolishadvertisements(2000).Thewholebookisdevotedtothediligentandex-

haustiveanalysisofvariouselementsoftheEnglishlanguagefoundinPolishcom-

mercials.Theauthorsapplyanormativeandevaluativebiasinthebook,pointingto

amultitudeofproblemscausedbyadvertisers’incompetentapplicationofelements

notproperlyunderstoodorsufficientlyreflecteduponpriortothecompositionof

themessage.Theypartlyabsolvethecopywritersoftheresponsibilitybyreferring

tothefunctionalperspectiveoftheuseofEnglishborrowings,asquiteoftenthey

arenotmeanttobethoroughlyunderstood,butmerelyrecognisedassymbolsof

certainclaimsorvalues.Twootherbookswherethemotifofitemsborrowedfrom

otherlanguagesisalsothemostimportantconstituentofthestructureandargu-

mentationareKelly-Holmes(2004)andMartin(2006).Kelly-Holmes’sbookisan

impressivestudyofthefunctionalandmotivationalissuesrelatedtomultilingual-

isminthediscourseofadvertisinginmanycountriesoftheworld,whileMartin’s

interestsaremoreClocal’

,focusingprimarilyonthecomplicatedroletheEnglish

languageplaysinFrenchadvertising.RelatedissuesarealsodiscussedinTanaka’s

(1994)accountofadvertisinginJapan,wheremanyEnglishborrowingswerefound

andgrantedauthor’sforemostattention.Hermerén(1999),ontheotherhand,fo-

cusedontheentireadvertisementspublishedworldwideintheEnglishlanguage,

thelinguafrancaofcontemporarycommerce.

Manyjournalarticlesandbookchaptersaddressthisissueaswell:Baumgard-

ner(2006;2008),Bhatia(1992),Chen(2006),CheshireandMoser(1994),P

.Fried-

rich(2002),Gerritsen(1995),Gerritsenetal.(2000),Gerritsenetal.(2007),Haar-

mann(1984),Hsu(2008),Kelly-Holmes(2000),Martin(2002a;2002b;2007),

Piller(2001),Schaller-Schwaner(2003),Sun(2007),Takahashi(1990),Ustinova

andBhatia(2005),Ustinova(2006),Wojtaszek(2004a)andZabawa(2004;2007;

2009a),tomentionbutafew.Theyallattempttoanalysetheformandfunctionof

elementsborrowedfromotherlanguagesincommercialsofvarioustypes,andthey

allinvariablytestifytothesignificantrolewhichsuchelementsperforminnation-

aladvertising.Inmanyadvertisementsforeignlanguageelementsperformpurely

symbolicfunctions,aimedatevokingspecificconnotationsrelatedtotheproduct

quality,originality,exoticism,technologicaladvancementorstatus.Thus,theEng-

lishlanguagesymbolicallyembodiescivilisationaldevelopment,internationalism,

theUnitedStatesortheworldofbusinessandcommerce,Frenchisrelatedtocui-

sine,refinementandperfumes,Germanrepresentsexcellenceindesignandqual-

ity,andSwedishepitomisessimplicityandsturdiness.

Thepapersmentionedabovealsoshowtheintricatewaysinwhichforeign(main-

lyEnglish)languageelementsareinterestinglyblendedwiththelanguagesoflo-

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