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Peer-Reviewed Article March 31, 2017

A Linguistic Study of Manipulative Advertising Strategies of the Mobile Network Operators In Egypt and the US Comparative Approach

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Published in: مجلة کلية الاداب جامعة حلوان
Publisher: Helwan University, Faculty of Arts • Egypt • 1110-8142 • 2735-3311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21608/kgef.2017.96195

Abstract

espanolHoy en dia la publicidad penetra en todos los aspectos de nuestra vida cotidiana: en la television, la radio, en los periodicos, en los buzones, en el metro, etc. Tanto si la publicidad es molesta o divertida, util o enganosa, es una forma de comunicacion mediante la cual los anunciantes comunican el valor de un producto o servicio a los clientes. Sin embargo, la publicidad esta lejos de ser simplemente informativa de una manera inocente y directa.La publicidad tiene una agenda. Es un mensaje habilmente construido, que manipula las percepciones y aspiraciones culturalesde los espectadores, y quepresenta el producto anunciado como una forma de satisfacer los deseos de la audiencia. Esto sucede creando una imagen especifica para el material publicitado y construyendo la percepcion de los espectadores sobre dichos anuncios.La publicidad tambien trata de establecer una relacion entre el anunciante y el espectador y es importante tener en cuenta esta relacion, ya que ayuda a formar el comportamiento de los consumidores hacia el producto anunciado. Las contribuciones academicas sobre las caracteristicas linguisticas de la publicidad aparecieron hace pocas decadas y se convirtieron en un rico campo de estudio interdisciplinario. La publicidad ha atraido una atencion constante e intensa en todas las disciplinas academicas, incluyendo marketing,estudios de mediosde comunicacion, psicologia, sociologia y linguistica.Desde una dimension linguistica, la investigacion publicitaria se centro en gran medida en la descripcion de dispositivos textuales especificos o en las relaciones entre texto e imagen, y ciertas caracteristicas pragmaticas, que ven la publicidad como un concepto especialdel discurso. En este sentido, algunas preguntas importantes siguen sin abordarse, como,por ejemplo, ?como estan motivados los destinatarios para abordar y procesar las nociones linguisticas en la publicidad y cuales son las estrategias para manipular sus conceptos mentales? EnglishAdvertising nowadays penetrates all aspects of our daily life: on TV, the radio, in the newspapers, in the mailboxes, on the side of underground metro, etc. Whether advertising is annoying or amusing, useful or misleading, it is a form of communication whereby advertisers communicate the value of a product or service to customers. However, advertising is far from just being informative in an innocent and straightforward way. Advertising has an agenda. It is a skillfully constructed message, which manipulates the viewers’ culturally created perceptions and aspirations, and which presents the advertised product as a way to satisfy the audience’s desires. This happens by creating a specific image for the advertised stuff and building the viewers’ perception of such ads. Advertising is also about establishing a relationship between the advertiser and the viewer and it is important to look at this relationship as it helps to form the consumers’ behavior towards the advertised product. Academic contributions on the linguistic features of advertising appeared few decades and developed into a rich interdisciplinary field of study. Advertising has attracted consistent and intense attention across academicdisciplines including marketing, media studies, psychology, sociology, and linguistics. From a linguistic dimension, advertising research focused heavily on the description of specific textual devices or the relations between text and image, and certain pragmatic features, which view advertising as a special concept of discourse. In this sense some important questions remain unapproached, like, how are the addressees motivated to tackle and process linguistic notions in advertising and what are the strategies to manipulate their mental concepts.

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