Published: 2023-12-29

Humor as a bridge between yesterday and today: An analysis of the implementation of intertextual humor in selected examples of Lidl’s advertising campaign on Facebook

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Abstract

Anna Stwora’s article presents the operation of intertextual humour in marketing discourse based on selected examples of Lidl’s advertising campaign on Facebook. The sample of advertisements gathered for the purpose of the study was made based on the criteria of intertextuality and humorousness. Content analysis reveals humour founded upon wordplay, mostly on paronomasia. It is the actual / non-actual script opposition that predominates, according to which the original form of the past text is transformed into a new and different (con)text. The humorous mechanism applied is closely related to the presence of intertextual references that refer the recipient to the realm of film titles and quotes, music, figures of pop culture, and internet discourses.

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Stwora, A. (2023). Humor as a bridge between yesterday and today: An analysis of the implementation of intertextual humor in selected examples of Lidl’s advertising campaign on Facebook. Forum Lingwistyczne, 11(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2023.11.2.08

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-29


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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