Evaluation in advertising reception : a socio-cognitive and linguistic perspective /

"Placed within the context of reception studies, this book examines the persuasive potential of advertisements that rely on re-contextualising shared cultural knowledge. The study focuses on three advertisements that cite well-known paintings and investigates the socio-cognitive resources trigg...

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Main Author: Bullo, Stella, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Summary:"Placed within the context of reception studies, this book examines the persuasive potential of advertisements that rely on re-contextualising shared cultural knowledge. The study focuses on three advertisements that cite well-known paintings and investigates the socio-cognitive resources triggered in the interpretive process. Bullo uncovers the way in which the attitudinal disposition and cognitive mechanisms involved are actualised in linguistic structures by proposing a new integrated framework for the study of sense-making discourse. The book concludes with a discussion of the important implications of such a typology, making it an significant addition to both socio-cognitive discourse analysis as well as to the research of advertising practices"--
Physical Description:vii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137350428 (hardback)
1137350423 (hardback)