The paper is based on the research of Greet Hofstede's Model of Cultural Dimensions and Edward. T. Hall's Context Culture Theory. According to their theories, the author focuses on four dimensions (context culture,...
The present paper aims to explore the activity of translating Chinese advertisements into English across cultural barriers. First, the functional views of Skopostheorie are introduced which can be served as theoretica...
This paper presents a study on the use of Swahili and English as language choice for advertising in Swahili newspapers in Tanzania. In the literature, it has been posited that bilingual advertising is fast becoming a ...
As a special style, advertising English has its own features. The verbal part of an advertisement is of vital importance to ensure its success. The paper discusses right diction in advertising English. This idea is es...
In Western societies, humour appears in many different communicative events, and is variedly expressed through words, pictures, sounds and body language. Humour is peculiar in that it is creative, compelling and cultu...
Ambiguity, as a language phenomenon, has its negative influence, so people will devote to avoiding using it in communication. However, if ambiguity is employed properly and appropriately, it will produce a magical eff...
Advertising is defined as the non-personal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media. Today adver...