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Marketing Identities Through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising 2006th Edition
Author(s): E. Martin (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2005
- Edition: 2006th
- Language: English
- Print length: 301 pages
- ISBN-10: 1403949840
- ISBN-13: 9781403949844
Book Description
Elizabeth Martin explores the impact of globalization on the language of French advertising, showing that English and global imagery play an important role in tailoring global campaigns to the French market, with media companies undeterred by the attempts through legislation to curb language mixing in the media.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Marketing Identitites Through Language will prove useful and interesting reading for specialists and students with interests in multilingual media discoures, global Englishes, language policy and planning and many other areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.’ – Helen Kelly-Holmes, Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
About the Author
ELIZABETH MARTIN is Assistant Professor of French and Director of Commercial French Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where she directs the Commercial French Studies program and designs French-for-Specific-Purposes (FSP) courses for advertising, business, architecture, engineering and music. Her main research interests include language-mixing in advertising and intercultural business communication.
