Advertising terms Flashcards

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beauty appeal

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beauty attracts us

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compliment the consumer

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flatter the consumer who is willing to purchase, purchase = good decision

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independent

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product for people who can think and act for themselves

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intelligence

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product for smart people who can’t be fooled

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lifestyle

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product for a certain way of living

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nurture

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appeal to parental or maternal instincts

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peer approval

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product use associated with friendship and acceptance

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rebel

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products associated with behaviours of lifestyle outside the norm

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rhetorical question

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question asked and consumer responds

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scientific claim

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some sort of scientific proof (logos)

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self-surveillance

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women ask questions about how clean house is

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unfinished comparison

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use of a comparative phrase but doesn’t specify to what it is compared

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anti-advertising

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draws attention to why they put negative light on product

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appeal to authority

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referring to a source that claims to have authority
argumentation fallacy - asumes the source is right

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appeal to fear

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make people scared, will buy or believe anything

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bandwagon effect

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everyone is doing it/ has this, why aren’t/don’t you?

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bias

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support ideological position, explicitly or implicitly
subjective pieces of writing

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brand

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meaning of the modern corporation

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branding

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persuade customers of a product’s quality prior to purchase or experience

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brand extension

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company produces a whole range of products under the same brand name, stores, air line, sports equipment…

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conflict in advertising

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audiences interested in seeing the conflict resolved through the use of the product being advertised

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consumer

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people buying the product

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crowdsourcing

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taking a job traditionally performed by a designated employee and outsourcing it to a large group

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ethos

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appeal to character credibility

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euphemism

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making something sound better than it actually is

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gatekeeper `

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a person who has access to a particular medium and can disseminate ideas with it

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generalizations

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large conclusions drawn from a few instances

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graphology

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visual aspect of the text

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imagery

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uses language to appeal to the readers senses

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indirect narration

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telling the events without a clear interpretation, it is up to the reader to interpret them however they see fit

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intertextuality

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ways in which a text resonates or refers to another text

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juxtaposition

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placement of two opposite ideas in close proximity

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logos

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appeal to logic

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long tail marketing

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nice markets are being targeted more effectively by advertisers since the internet brings people together through large databases

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marketing

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sum of the ways in which a product is positioned by a particular market

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mashup

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online texts that copy content from an original source and alter it in some way

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metonymy

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act of referring to a concept not by its name but something associated with it

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newsworthyness

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negative - disasters, disease, disappointment..
relevance - people affect by events
extraordinary - something remarkable

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pathos

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appeal to emotion

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pay-per-click

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sponsors or advertisers on websites to generate revenue

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personalization

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account, profiling age, users contribute to growing databases

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phonological

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relates to the sound system of language

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problem/solution

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convince someone of a problem and sell solution

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product placement

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branded products appear in movies or TV

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planned obsolescence

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manufacturing products in a way that they need replacing soon

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reported speech

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narrator summarises what characters say

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sensationalism

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exaggerates, over-hypes and attracts attention to controversy

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setting

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where, geographically and temporally

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shock advertising

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used to gain attention, advertisement is controversial it c=gains publicity

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slang

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deviation in language use (vocab or expressions) from particular language

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slogan

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phrase repeated constantly, simple

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social networking

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structure of individuals and their interdependence on each other

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stereotyping

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assigning fixed characteristics to individuals on the basis of their group membership

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super crunching

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refers to phenomenon of how large databases helping use make decisions everyday

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synecdote

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act of referring to an entity by one of its parts

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testimonial

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personal experience

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textuality

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characteristics that define a text

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celebrity endorsement

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sell us idea or product, people want to be like celebrities

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viral

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travels like a virus from person to person, via social networks and e-mail