Evidentials in advertising: a sample study
This paper explores the use of evidential devices in press adverts in English in a compilation of original advertisements. Due to the appellative nature of advertising discourse, I think that these texts are likely to convey source of knowledge through evidentials as an advertising strategy in order...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Repositório: | accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/45380 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/45380 http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6048786 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | 57 Lingüística 550510 Filología Evidentiality Evidential devices Epistemic modality Advertising Advertisement Persuasion |
| Resumo: | This paper explores the use of evidential devices in press adverts in English in a compilation of original advertisements. Due to the appellative nature of advertising discourse, I think that these texts are likely to convey source of knowledge through evidentials as an advertising strategy in order to pragmatically manifest a higher level of credibility and reliability of the information presented concerning the products and the brands. The selected corpus of adverts will allow us to focus special attention on this particular genre and on how evidentials are used, in the fashion of other works carried out in other textual genres (cf. Fox, 2001; Kaplan, 2007; Marín-Arrese, 2004, 2007; Ortega-Barrera and Torres-Ramírez, 2010). Evidentials are studied as part of a set of persuasion strategies used by different linguistic communities in the discourse of advertising (Block de Behar, 1992; Cook, 1992; Cortés de los Ríos, 2001; Pavitt, 2000; Rein, 1982). Conclusions will report on how evidentials are used in print adverts, and whether a type of evidential device prevails over the rest. |
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