#socialiseresponsibly. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Heineken TV Commercials During the Pandemic
This work analyzes the efforts by the company Heineken to address in their marketing campaigns the social responsibility and wellbeing of their customers during the pandemic. By particularly looking at the audio-visual design strategies used in 15 TV commercials produced and published during the yea...
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| description | This work analyzes the efforts by the company Heineken to address in their marketing campaigns the social responsibility and wellbeing of their customers during the pandemic. By particularly looking at the audio-visual design strategies used in 15 TV commercials produced and published during the years 2020–2022, a multimodal analysis of the filmic montage structures examines how the company establishes a coherent process of core marketing and convinces recipients to socialize responsibly under pandemic conditions. The analysis follows the current trend in empirical multimodality research to pursue analyses of digital corpora with the theories and methods developed in the field. Particularly, it uses an ELAN annotation scheme for the description of specific camera techniques (such as camera distance and perspective) as well as the discourse relations holding between the shots and segments identified in the commercials. The findings show that the company mainly uses one specific type of rhetorical structure, the narrative commentary, that puts the social actors shown in many different scenes into the foreground and therefore strongly focuses on the company's strategy of positive social behavior. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e04367c25024e2386762662b8e06e882022-12-22T03:36:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Communication2297-900X2022-05-01710.3389/fcomm.2022.887706887706#socialiseresponsibly. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Heineken TV Commercials During the PandemicJanina Wildfeuer0Joseph Adika Coffie1Department of Communication and Information Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, NetherlandsDepartment of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaThis work analyzes the efforts by the company Heineken to address in their marketing campaigns the social responsibility and wellbeing of their customers during the pandemic. By particularly looking at the audio-visual design strategies used in 15 TV commercials produced and published during the years 2020–2022, a multimodal analysis of the filmic montage structures examines how the company establishes a coherent process of core marketing and convinces recipients to socialize responsibly under pandemic conditions. The analysis follows the current trend in empirical multimodality research to pursue analyses of digital corpora with the theories and methods developed in the field. Particularly, it uses an ELAN annotation scheme for the description of specific camera techniques (such as camera distance and perspective) as well as the discourse relations holding between the shots and segments identified in the commercials. The findings show that the company mainly uses one specific type of rhetorical structure, the narrative commentary, that puts the social actors shown in many different scenes into the foreground and therefore strongly focuses on the company's strategy of positive social behavior.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.887706/fullrhetorical structurecore marketingsocial responsibilitymultimodal annotationTV commercials |
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| title | #socialiseresponsibly. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Heineken TV Commercials During the Pandemic |
| title_full | #socialiseresponsibly. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Heineken TV Commercials During the Pandemic |
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| title_short | #socialiseresponsibly. Analyzing the Rhetorical Structure of Heineken TV Commercials During the Pandemic |
| title_sort | socialiseresponsibly analyzing the rhetorical structure of heineken tv commercials during the pandemic |
| topic | rhetorical structure core marketing social responsibility multimodal annotation TV commercials |
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