Università Roma Tre

The new title of the course “Linguistics, media and advertising” is based on a specific idea of the linguistic and the iconic configuration of the advertising messages. Over the enormous combinations of images and words, that have been elaborated between sense/nonsense, blends and portmanteau words, weasel words and implicatures,
neologisms and mysterious and complex brands, it is possible to find, to count and to describe some constant rules, restrains and schemas, that command every communicative process addressed by the art directors and the copy-writers to the consumers and to the other kinds of advs targets. These rules can be ascribed to the relevant chapter of Design, and for this the course is divided in three parts:
- The first part aims to explain what is adverting and to list and to illustrate the different typologies of advertising (commercial, political, institutional, advocacy, etc.), the diverse kinds of the advertisements (from posters to folders, commercials to pitch-spot, etc.) and their elements (from headline to body copy or jingle, etc.);
- In the second part, the concept of design is described in the light of the cognitive pattern, the imagery definition, the visual word paradigm and the textual theory. The idea of design as process aimed to project and to create new objects and identities is fundamental for explaining the sense of texts without coherence and cohesion, as wel as those of advertising.
- In the third, but not least part, the particular phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic and rhetorical features of the advertising messages will be analyzed examining a series of examples, classified on the base of a single trait: e.g., the kind of product, the typology of consumer, the identity of the narrator, etc.
The lexical aspects and the brand names are analyzed in-depth, from several points of view, evaluating the importance of naming, as one of the most relevant strategy for creating connotative identities and the so called top ten. On this topic. it is analized the change of the old strategies linkef to interent impact-

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Chosen pages
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