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Bühler’s organon model of communication: a semiotic analysis of advertising slogans

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Published/Copyright: August 6, 2021

Abstract

This article investigates the member units of sign systems used in contemporary Iranian advertising slogans according to the Organon Model introduced by Karl Bühler. In dealing with this subject, the writer introduces Bühler’s Organon Model and provides a short definition of the term advertising slogan. The next part of this article shows the three types of conative functions with regard to such slogans. The corpus of this study is the slogan of a hundred contemporary Iranian advertising messages used in Iranian markets which have not been studied from a semiotic perspective. The result of this research shows the tendencies of Iranian advertising messages to lean towards the descriptive type of conative function.


Corresponding author: Sarvenaz Safavi, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, E-mail:

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Received: 2018-04-10
Accepted: 2020-10-07
Published Online: 2021-08-06
Published in Print: 2021-09-27

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