Course: Language and style of advertising texts

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Course title Language and style of advertising texts
Course code KBO/4230
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Trpka Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Marketing communication and place of ads in it. Advertising as a social phenomenon. 2. History of advertisement. Classification criteria of advertising. Types of advertising. 3. Psychology of advertising. 4. Basic requirements for advertising. Advertising text, stylistic factors, constituting of advertising functional style. 5.-6. Print advertising and its types. Advertising genres of print ads. 7. nonverbal aspects in advertisement. Audiovisual advertisement. Pronunciation styles in ad. 8. Persuasion in advertising texts. Cultural resources and language resources of persuasion of advertising text. 9.-10. Lexical and syntactic features of contemporary czech advertisement. Logo, slogan, title, brand. 11. Joke, humour, play with language in advertising texts. 12.-13. Creation of advertising text. (Commercial) presentation in daily press.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on advertisement as a specific area of public communication. Emphasis is placed on understanding all components of advertising communiqué and its all-round analysis. The main interests are the linguistic aspect of contemporary czech advertising texts and on the other hand the style aspect of these texts with regards to genre diversity of printing advertisement. One of the goals of this course is to develop the skills that are necessary for creating advertising utterances, which include a verbal component (in the form and / or the spoken and written).
Student is able to characterize advertisement as a specific kind of public communication; state and define main signs of advertisiment, justify the role of psychological aspects in advertising, analyze advertising communiqué from the viewpoint of the author and recipient, composition of the communiqué etc.; distinguish the types of advertising communiqué, justify the classification criteria; indicate the typical expressive features of advertising communiqué with the emphasis on linguistic features; describe manipulative techniques of advertising texts considering recipient differentiated by sex, age etc.
Prerequisites
knowledge of the field on the level of GCSE exam knowledge of disciplines connected to the central domain of study knowledge of appropriate terminology

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
attendance activity presentation test
Recommended literature
  • Čechová, M. - Krčmová, M. - Minářová, E. Současná stylistika. Praha: NLN, 2008.
  • Čmejrková, S. Reklama v češtině. Čeština v reklamě. Praha: Leda, 2000.
  • Křížek, Z. - Crha, I. Jak psát reklamní text. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2012.
  • Mastný, J. Reklama ve světě médií. Praha: Vysoká škola hotelová v Praze 8, 2010.
  • Pospíšil, J. - Závodná, L., S. Jak na reklamu. Praha: Computer Media, 2012.
  • Srpová, H. - Bartošek, J. - Čmejrková, S. - Jaklová, A. - Pácl, P. Od informace k reklamě. Ostrava: FF OU, 2007.
  • Srpová, H. (ed.). Metody a prostředky přesvědčování v masových médiích. Ostrava: FF OU, 2005.
  • Srpová, H. Knížka o reklamě. Ostrava: FF OU, 2008.
  • Šebesta, K. Reklamní texty. Jejich funkce a výstavba. Praha: FF UK, 1990.
  • Vysekalová, J. - Komárková, R. Psychologie reklamy. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2002.
  • Vysekalová, J. - Mikeš, J. Reklama. Jak dělat reklamu. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2010.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language for Media and Public Sphere (A14) Category: Philological sciences 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter