»FOLGE DEINEM EIGENEN STERN!« - ZUR PRODUKTWERBUNG IM SPIEGEL DER RUSSISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT

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»FOLGE DEINEM EIGENEN STERN!« - ZUR PRODUKTWERBUNG IM SPIEGEL DER RUSSISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT

Journal Title: Acta Neophilologica - Year 2007, Vol 1, Issue 0

Abstract

The language of product advertising reflects political, social, and economic contexts. Thus, a broad basis of material enables linguists to observe in what way the change of a society becomes visible by strategies of marketing a product or a brand name. In the article, by the example of the legendary and prestigious Mercedes-Benz brand this in shown by way of a semantic-pragmatic analysis. For this it is briefly outlined the career of Mercedes-Benz and today’s socioeconomic situation in Russia. By way of examples from a corpus of Russian advertising copies on this brand, which has been on the Russian market for more than a century, it is then demonstrated how the language of economic advertisement works today and which strategies are used to advertise the various products of the different price ranges. From a gender-linguistic perspective it is sketched the use of rhetorical devices by help of which there is breaking through the conventional expecta- tions of those being in the focus of advertising. It is shown in which way the language of advertisement exploits social cliches to sell a certain image of man, and in which way the unique selling proposition is used to make the product-specific, emotional, and the factually not justifiable additional advantage of the advertised vehicles explicit, which makes them different from their competitors. After having determined the linguistic concept of vagueness I explain the highly unclear nature of the language of advertisement, how this way it fulfills its persuasive function, and how it thus tempts consumers to buy a product which was formerly beyond everybody’s means.

Authors and Affiliations

Sabine Donninghaus

Keywords

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