2nd Edition

The Discourse of Advertising

By Guy Cook Copyright 2001
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

The Discourse of Advertising explores the language of contemporary advertising. Cook argues that advertisements are always in complex interaction with the texts around them, with music and pictures, and with the people who make and experience them. This second edition addresses contemporary advertising in the context of current changes in communication. Advertisements span a range of mediums... Read more
Contents List Chapter One. Introduction: The Genre of the Advertisement Chapter Two. Substance and Surroundings Chapter Three. Pictures, Music, Speech and Writing Chapter Four. Language and Paralanguage Chapter Five. Words and Phrases Chapter Six. Prosody Parallelism Poetry Chapter Seven. Connected Text Chapter Eight. Narrative Voices Chapter Nine. Ways of Hearing Chapter Ten. Conclusion: The Genre of Advertisement

Biography

Guy Cook