Egyptian and american TV commercials : A comparative linguistic study /
اعلانات التليفزيون المصرية والامريكية : دراسة لغوية مقارنة
Neveen GalalEldin Mohammed Yousef ; Supervised Salwa Abdelaziz Kamel
- Cairo : Neveen Galal Eldin Mohammed Yousef , 2006
- 187P ; 25cm
Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Arts - Department Of English
Television advertising is one of the dominant daily visual - auditory genres that fill hours of television timeIt provides ample data for relating language to its functions in general , and for studying some linguistic features that characterize the language of advertising in particularThis research attempts to compare American and Egyptian linguistic messages in TV commercials to determine and analyze the persuasive devices and the linguistic features that characterize eachIt investigates the linguistic differences and similarities between Egyptian and American TV advertising , with emphasis on the pragmatic functions of the isolated linguistic features , and focuses on the use of linguistic techniques to convey implicit messages in TV commercials in Egyptian Arabic