Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780765618016)

Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of communication, is distinguished by its focus on causing action. Its goal is not simply to communicate ideas, educate, or persuade, but to move a prospect closer to a purchase. The editors of "Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric" have been involved in developing the scholarship of advertising rhetoric for many years. In this volume they have assembled the most current and authoritative new perspectives on this topic. The chapter authors all present previously unpublished concepts that represent advances beyond what is already known about advertising rhetoric. In the opening and closing chapters editors Ed McQuarrie and Barbara Phillips provide an integrative view of the current state of the art in advertising rhetoric.

Author: Edward F. McQuarrie, Barbara J. Phillips
ISBN-10: 076561801X
ISBN-13: 9780765618016
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2007
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.40w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 230