Download or read book Semiotics and Shock Advertisement written by Corinna Colette Vellnagel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: Excellent, The University of Surrey (Department of English), course: Language of Advertising, language: English, abstract: There is advertisement - and there is advertisement: Most ads have the intention to make people aware of a product, service or concept followed by the purchase and therefore "support the free-market economy" (Reschke: 1998, p. 1); but there are ads whose main aim is to inform people, more precisely to call their attention to a certain topic. Consequently, advertisements cause different reactions: Some ads make people smile or even giggle; some just communicate plane information; whilst others make people think and reflect; and again others literally shock people. Advertising campaigns such as the WWF 9/11 one, the "Get unhooked" ads or Antonio Federici's banned campaign (q.v. Appendix 1-3) are only three examples on the list of campaigns banned in the 21st century due to unethical content. Those offensive advertisements include "messages that transgress laws and customs (e.g. anti-human rights), breach a moral or social code (e.g. profanity, vulgarity) or outrage the moral or physical senses (e.g. gratuitous use of violence, use of disgusting images)" (Chan et al.: 2007, p. 608). Researchers found out that adverts, which "are incongruent with social norms attract attention and are more likely to be retained in memory" (Gulas and Weinberger: 2006, p. 173). Attracting interest can be done on different ways: by either using attention attracting pictures, sounds, signs or just simple words and phrases.
Download or read book Semiotics and Shock Advertisement written by Corinna Colette Vellnagel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: Excellent, The University of Surrey (Department of English), course: Language of Advertising, language: English, abstract: There is advertisement – and there is advertisement: Most ads have the intention to make people aware of a product, service or concept followed by the purchase and therefore “support the free-market economy” (Reschke: 1998, p. 1); but there are ads whose main aim is to inform people, more precisely to call their attention to a certain topic. Consequently, advertisements cause different reactions: Some ads make people smile or even giggle; some just communicate plane information; whilst others make people think and reflect; and again others literally shock people. Advertising campaigns such as the WWF 9/11 one, the “Get unhooked” ads or Antonio Federici’s banned campaign (q.v. Appendix 1-3) are only three examples on the list of campaigns banned in the 21st century due to unethical content. Those offensive advertisements include “messages that transgress laws and customs (e.g. anti-human rights), breach a moral or social code (e.g. profanity, vulgarity) or outrage the moral or physical senses (e.g. gratuitous use of violence, use of disgusting images)” (Chan et al.: 2007, p. 608). Researchers found out that adverts, which “are incongruent with social norms attract attention and are more likely to be retained in memory” (Gulas and Weinberger: 2006, p. 173). Attracting interest can be done on different ways: by either using attention attracting pictures, sounds, signs or just simple words and phrases.
Download or read book Semiotic Investigations written by A. W. McHoul and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics" - a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses." McHoul expounds his theory of effective semiotics - of "meaning-as-use" - in a series of provocative chapters on diverse topics. He begins by examining the relations between semiotics and history and between semiotics and specific communities. He elaborates on the nature of these relations by demonstrating the "effective semiotics" of a particular photograph from the 1880s, episodes from the film Singin' in the Rain and the Batman comics, literary works, children's primers, popular accounts of science, and many other objects, artifacts, and experiences. Semiotic Investigations advances its own comprehensive theory of signs while ably examining works by such distinguished philosophers and theorists as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Lyotard, Kuhn, and others. Yet the book is also down-to-earth and clearly written, with an eye towards a startling range of "ordinary" and "uncommon" experiences. It will be required reading for linguists, philosophers, semioticians, anthropologists, literary theorists, and students of cultural studies.
Download or read book Using Semiotics in Marketing written by Rachel Lawes and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is a superpower for marketers. It's a proven, powerful method of uncovering consumer insight, tailoring brand strategies that work and generating profit for brands. Companies such as Unilever and P&G have attested to the success of Lawes semiotics in stimulating innovation and boosting sales. Now newly updated, this second edition is packed with even more revelations about brands, consumers and their emerging needs. Three new chapters reveal the unseen social forces that drive the Be Kind movement, public appetite for sincerity and the emotions of younger generations. Using Semiotics in Marketing is an acclaimed how-to guide that makes semiotics accessible. It ensures all agency-side and client-side marketers can pick up the skills to use and apply semiotics to brands and is the only book on semiotics ever published that sets out a complete blueprint for research projects. This is your one-stop guide to learn how to write briefs and proposals, design projects, conduct analysis, write reports and present research findings. Start using semiotics today. Position and launch new brands, rejuvenate established ones, design products and packaging and inspire timely and provocative ad campaigns. See the future. Innovate.
Download or read book Marketing and Semiotics written by Jean Umiker-Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marketing Semiotics written by Laura R. Oswald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday consumers buy into the concept of brands and their associated meanings - the perception of quality, a symbolic relationship, a vicarious experience, or even a sense of identity. Marketing Semiotics suggests that the extent to which consumers recognize, internalize, and relate to brand meanings is not only an academic question. These meanings contribute to 'brand equity', the financial value of intangible brand benefits that exceed the use value of goods, and impacts upon a firm's financial performance. Therefore, the management of brand equity demands first and foremost the management of brand meanings, or semiotics. The book uses structural semiotics, a discipline that extends the laws of structural linguistics to the analysis of verbal, visual, and spatial sign systems, to shed light on the cultural codes and discourse of brands. It proposes that semiotic research should form the cornerstone of brand equity management, since brands rely so heavily on sign systems that contribute to profitability by distinguishing brands from simple commodities, from competitors, and engaging consumers in the brand world. The book includes dozens of global business cases where semiotics has been used to refocus, reposition, or extend the brand to new products, customers, and markets. Drawing upon twenty years of academic and consulting experience, the book provides actionable direction for steering brands through technological and cultural change, differentiating brands in the competitive environment, and counteracting the natural depletion of brand meaning over time.
Download or read book Semiotics and Visual Communication IV written by Evripides Zantides and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book consist of selected papers which investigate the theme of ‘Myths Today’, paying homage to the notion of myth as defined by Roland Barthes in the late 1950’s which provided a theoretical framework under which daily habits, as well as consumer practices, can be examined as socially constructed signs, idealized through verbal narratives. While ‘myth is a type of speech’, it is also a type of image; typeface, cinema, photography, sports, online networks, politics, TV shows, sound, and fashion can all serve as groundwork for mythical discourses. Under this framework, the book explores myths today, in the context of global networks, globalisation, visuals and mass communication. The interdisciplinary nature of the book provides a platform for discussion and research, broadens the scope of semiotic and visual communication thinking, and challenges the boundaries of various disciplines.
Download or read book Persuasion in Advertising written by John O'Shaughnessy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective advertising is, almost always, persuasive advertising, and while not all advertising seeks to persuade, in a competitive situation those who best persuade are those most likely to win. This exciting new book seeks to explain the precise ways in which advertising successfully persuades consumers, setting out the strategies for advertisers to adopt and illustrating the theories at work. Offering not only a conceptual and theoretical grounding in persuasive techniques, this book also provides concrete empirical research that is uniquely incorporated into a marketing textbook format. The authors cover topics including: difficulties of persuasion, rationality and emotion in persuasion, positive reinforcement techniques and cognitive approaches to persuasion. To illuminate these theories, the authors include original case-studies on campaigns as diverse as Death Cigarettes, Mecca Cola, The Oxo Family and Renault Clio, as well as recent advertisements from BMW, McDonalds, Omega and Silk Cut. A genuinely fresh text on the art of persuasion in advertising, this book is essential reading for all marketing students and academics.
Download or read book Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body written by Žarko Paić and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of the logic of representation of fashion in the light of modern society and postmodern culture, this book argues that contemporary fashion should be regarded as a performative-conceptual turn in the very core of body iconograms. The text presents a theoretical perspective of the phenomenon of fashion within fashion theory as establishing a new approach from visual semiotics. Through this lens, fashion, therefore, emerges as a visual code of contemporary societies and cultures in the networked matrices of hyperreality and visions of that coming time that will determine the combination of cybernetics, fetishism and transgression.
Download or read book Consumer Behaviour written by Isabelle Szmigin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For lecturers: Comprehensive customizable PowerPoint slides; Learning activities (including, more detailed workshop-based activities, shorter lecture-based in-class exercises and suggestions for assessment approaches) An instructor's manual (containing guidance on how to use the case studies and Practitioner Insights in class, indicative answers, and some additional questions)
Download or read book Marketing and Semiotics written by Hanne Hartvig Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ADVERTISING written by SHARMA, SANGEETA and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising has today become an indispensable marketing tool of the corporate world. The advent of the Internet, e-commerce, data analytics, and computer-aided designing has revolutionized the advertising world. This book provides an in-depth coverage of the concepts related to advertising, media planning, and nuances of advertising in each media source. Divided into five parts, the text covers advertising basics, advertising research and strategy, creativity and advertising, advertising media, and integrated marketing communications. The book describes how to develop and execute an effective advertising campaign by understanding consumers' mindset and conducting advertising research. It also enables the reader to assess, review and modify an advertising campaign through case studies of several brands. The third edition of the book appropriately incorporates a chapter on 'Digital Marketing', and 'Rural Marketing' along with revamping and reorganising contents of book to enhance the learning process. KEY FEATURES • A large number of ads, current as well as from the past, are used to elucidate the concepts. • The text helps the reader analyze an ad copy and find its relevance to the product. • Case studies on popular brands are provided throughout the text to assist the reader in understanding the key elements of successful brand building. • The book is primarily intended to serve as a text for postgraduate students of management and the students pursuing various courses in advertising. TARGET AUDIENCE • MBA • PG Diploma in Advertising & PR • PG Certificate Programme—Sales & Marketing Communication
Download or read book The Semiotics of Discourse written by Jacques Fontanille and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph
Download or read book Marketing Management written by S.H.H. Kazmi and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing is of interest to students of marketing, or marketers of tangibles or non tangibles.
Download or read book Advertising and Promotion written by Chris Hackley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces the key concepts, methods and issues within advertising and promotion for students taking courses on the subject at universities and colleges. It offers first-hand examples gathered from leading international advertising agencies and brand campaigns, and it is told from the perspective of the agency to give a fun and creative insider view which helps the reader to think beyond the client position and understand what it might be like working within an ad agency. The authors draw not only from management and marketing research but also from other disciplines such as cultural/media studies and sociology to offer a rounded and critical perspective on the subject for those looking to achieve high grades and understand advertising as social phenomenon in addition to its business function and purpose. New to the third edition: chapter on strategy and creativity additional case studies with increased global coverage including emerging markets images of classic and recent ads from the street, print, online and television increased coverage of the internet, social media and their effects on advertising companion website materials including relevant videos, journal articles and a Jeopardy-style game for the classroom The textbook is now also supported by a new author-written blog which keeps readers updated on interesting, topical examples relating to advertising and promotion from current affairs and popular culture: www.hackleyadvertisingandpromotion.blogspot.com.
Download or read book The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes written by Epure, Manuela and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the increasingly competitive global market, successful and meaningful intercultural advertising plays a key role in reaching out to consumers from diverse language and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, it is crucial for individuals and businesses to be able to navigate the field of marketing communications to cut through the noise in a consumerist society to persuade their target audience. The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the power of words and symbols used in promotional strategies and marketing schemes. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as shock advertising, branding, and celebrity endorsement, this book is ideally designed for marketers, managers, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the use of language and symbols in marketing tactics.
Download or read book Launch Advertising and Promotion in Real Time written by Michael Solomon and published by Flat World Knowledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launch! Advertising and Promotion is written for advertising and promotion courses taught to students in the business school and journalism & mass communication students. This textbook is the first of its kind to teach advertising concepts by reverse engineering a real advertising campaign from beginning to end. In April 2007, SS+K, an innovative New York City communications agency, launched the first ever branding campaign for msnbc.com with the tag "A Fuller Spectrum of News." Launch! follows that campaign from initial agency pitch through roll-out of print and media assets to post-campaign analysis. Throughout, it exposes readers to the theory and concepts of advertising and promotion, and the personalities and decisions that drove this campaign. The book takes a rare look "behind the curtain" - even letting you see some of the paths not chosen by the agency and client. Students get a realistic sense of how theory plays out in practice, and get a flavor for the exciting field of advertising and promotion. And, they consistently learn the perspectives of both the advertising agency (where many journalism and communications students will work) and the client (where many marketing majors will work). This is a unique book, with a unique perspective, by a unique author team, and you won't find this kind of insight in any other text on the market. We think you're going to love it! This textbook has been used in classes at: Ball State University, Emerson College, Florida Institute of Technology, Grand Valley State University, Johnson County Community College, Manchester Business School, McLennan Community College, Michigan State University, North Hennepin Community College, Pierce College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Saint Louis University, Salem State College, South Dakota State University, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, University of New Hampshire, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of South Florida, Virginia Tech, Western Kentucky University.