Adverts and related devices are a rich field of language play. The basic aim of playful language studied here is to attract the attention of readers/viewers as with the headlines in the previous chapter, but with adverts and suchlike there is much more freedom and scope. Of course adverts don’t only rely on language and the language in them does not always involve play.

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Advertising and Naming

  • Roger Berry

摘要

Adverts and related devices are a rich field of language play. The basic aim of playful language studied here is to attract the attention of readers/viewers as with the headlines in the previous chapter, but with adverts and suchlike there is much more freedom and scope. Of course adverts don’t only rely on language and the language in them does not always involve play.