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Identification and Visual Rhetoric in Modern Advertisement Theory

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  • Abdullah S. Darwish

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In this paper, I have tried to develop an analytical framework to account for the value and important use of visual rhetoric in modern advertisement theory through adopting Burke’s (1969) notion of identification. I have shown how identification in advertisements with visual images is created by such strategies as naming, framing, symbol use, perfection principle, negativity principle and social hierarchy notion. Initially, identification needs some visual deviation to establish its existence. This suggested analytical framework of identification here has been integrated with modern advertisement theory framework which has three main variables: attracting attention, arousing pleasure, and making the message long-lasting in the minds of the audience. Through applying these two frameworks, I attempt to show how modern advertisers mold their advertisements not only to persuade the target audience but also to create identification which leads to a long term consumerism relationship between the advertised product/service and the target audience. In all cases, a minimum degree of pre-established knowledge on the side of the audience is required to work out the covert relationship between the visual images and the advertised product/service in order to achieve identification and its consequential long term consumerism relationship.

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  • Abdullah S. Darwish, 2015. "Identification and Visual Rhetoric in Modern Advertisement Theory," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 4, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjz:ajisjr:1267
    DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3p11
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    1. McQuarrie, Edward F & Mick, David Glen, 1996. "Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language," Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Research Inc., vol. 22(4), pages 424-438, March.
    2. Anne A. Christopher, 2013. "Rhetorical Strategies in Advertising: The Rise and Fall Pattern," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 2, October.
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