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INFORMATION CONTENT IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN ADVERTISEMENTS
INFORMATION CONTENT IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN ADVERTISEMENTS

Author(s): Alina Guga-Coţea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: communication; cross-cultural advertising; information content

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the importance of the cross-cultural information content analysis of advertisements which reveals the cultural aspects that influence advertising strategies. The study offers insights into the cultural values and the information content present in the messages of the 25 English and 25 Romanian ads from the corpus (four of them analysed in detail in the present article). Finally, statistical results are presented and conclusions are drawn.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 234-240
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English