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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456301103321

Autore

Schmidt Rosemarie

Titolo

Television advertising and televangelism [[electronic resource] ] : discourse analysis of persuasive language / / Rosemarie Schmidt and Joseph F. Kess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986

ISBN

90-272-8629-9

1-283-09295-6

9786613092953

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0166-6258 ; ; VII:5

Altri autori (Persone)

KessJoseph F

Disciplina

808.5/0141

Soggetti

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Television advertising - Language

Television in religion

Evangelistic work - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TELEVISION ADVERTISING AND TELEVANGELISM DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION; 3. THE LANGUAGE OF TELEVANGELISM; 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; FOOTNOTES; APPENDICES; A. H.P. GRICE'S PRINCIPLES OF CONVERSATION; B. TRANSCRIPTS OF PROMOTIONAL SEGMENTS; REFERENCES; The series PRAGMATICS & BEYOND series

Sommario/riassunto

The research reported in this volume attempts to refine our understanding of persuasive messages of television advertising by studying the role of language in persuasion in two ways. First, it comprises an attempt to refine our understanding of how language might function in persuasion by examining relevant work from a variety of related disciplines, potentially germane either in terms of their theoretical approaches to the process or in terms of the actual linguistic techniques which they have suggested as enhancing the



persuasive impact of a message. Second, a comparative study was undertake