Published: 2016-02-01

Words Mean. Words Look. Words Sell (Themselves)

Małgorzata Bortliczek

Abstract

An article entitled Words Mean. Words Look. Words Sell (Themselves) focuses onthree issues: dominance of the use of English loanwords over attempts to create their Polish equivalents (as a result of which a product, a process, an event, or an artefact promoted by the English-speaking culture is adopted together with its name), a trend whereby words (and titles composed of words) become images (through a choice of font, a non-standard use of lowercase and uppercase letters, or an inclusion of non-letter characters, e.g. parentheses), and ascribing to words present in micro-acts a promotional function, advertising the entire product – a text. The trends discussed in the article are not new, but it is their intensity level that is new.

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Bortliczek, M. (2016). Words Mean. Words Look. Words Sell (Themselves). International Journal of Research in E-Learning, 2(2), 92–103. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/IJREL/article/view/8386

IJREL 2(2) 2016

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2016)
Published: 2016-06-13


ISSN: 2451-2583
eISSN: 2543-6155

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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