Object

Group publication title:

Token

Abstract:

The article examines the genesis and modification of IT consumer’s identity (ITCI) in terms of certain pragmatic properties of Apple’s slogans. Drawing on Barthes’s concept of mythologization, underpinned by theories of personal archetypes and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the study identified ITCI-descriptors – stylistically and pragmatically connotated meanings, associated with the advertised product or customer characteristics, related to ITCI formation. Initial ITCI construction relies on cognitive needs and the Explore archetype, based on customer-associated descriptor “creativeness”, marked by disregard for cooperative maxims, by oxymorons, allusions, puns and aposiopesis, iconically reproducing nonstandard thinking. Subsequent stages involve the Seeker archetype hybridization with the Trickster archetype, related to ludic stylistics, paradoxes, non sequitur, and occasionalismscompounding. Currently creativity-based identity gives way to universalization-based ITCI marked by positive politeness, indirect commissives, pronouns of inclusiveness, indefiniteness, and metonymic identification of the product with its owner. Productassociated descriptors are at the core of the ITCI field of needs. Peripheral is the need for respect, even more peripheral is the need for in-group affiliation and cognitive needs.

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 141-169

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Date issued:

2021

Identifier:

oai:bibliotekacyfrowa.ujk.edu.pl:8006 ; doi:10.25951/4824

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Has part:

vol. 13/2021

Type:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf