‘Perfectly Smooth, Creamy and Full Flavoured’: Online Cheese Descriptions

Labrador, Belén; García, Noelia Ramón

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.440

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“…Various methods have been employed when attributing genre functions to visual elements inside a move structure. Images have been attributed functions at the level of steps (Izquierdo & Pérez Blanco, 2020;Parkinson et al, 2017), have been considered as moves (Labrador & Ramón, 2015;Suen, 2013) and have also been analysed on their own merit without considering it as part of the move structure (Leelertphan, 2017). Labrador and Ramon (2015) analyse a subgenre of product descriptions (what I refer to as product information)-cheese descriptions (written in English) -to recognize the rhetorical structure and language of this sub-genre.…”

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“…Using specialised corpora in genre analysis One way in which specialised discourse has been analysed for practical pedagogical purposes is through corpus-based genre analysis (Swales, 1990). Such move specific corpusbased genre analysis has been followed in Henry and Roseberry (2001), Navarro (2015), Ding (2007), Labrador and Ramón (2015), Izquierdo and Pérez Blanco (2020) and Upton (2002). Corpus analyses of different research and professional domains record a variety of corpus linguistic methods that different researchers (Cheng, 2014;J.…”

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“…Tagging a corpus for moves can be used to analyse the move register of a genre (Ding (2007); Labrador and Ramón (2015); Upton and Connor (2001) and (Biber, Connor, & Upton, 2007a) in corpus-based studies of specialised discourse. Such a task allows researchers to identify language patterns characteristic of a genre, and gain a more in-depth understanding of how features characterising a particular genre behave within the different rhetorical units/moves.…”

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“…This technique is labour intensive, and therefore is not used by many. Labrador and Ramón (2015) uses move tags for product descriptions but they limited tags to extracting concordances from moves and steps to help with proposing some model language phrases representing the moves. No other study takes full advantage of the number of corpus techniques mentioned above (as mine does) by combining them to design a genre analysis method that combines both qualitative move analysis and lexico-grammatical analysis using corpus analysis techniques.…”

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“…A thread of research on OPI has focused on the food and beverage domain (Izquierdo & Pérez Blanco, 2020;Labrador & Ramón, 2015), and the move structures that the research presents are specific to one product which they sell. For instance, Labrador and Ramón (2015) identify the following moves in what they call online cheese descriptions: identifying the cheese, showing a picture, describing the product, describing the process, describing smell and taste, offering serving suggestions, suggesting recipes, and providing quality assurance. Izquierdo and Pérez Blanco (2020) identify six moves in 'herbal tea promotional texts':…”

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A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Online Product Information to Inform English for Specific Purposes

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Discipline specific writing in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) can be challenging because writing discipline specific texts involves knowing the norms of writing that come with the discipline (Miller & Pessoa 2017). With rapid digitalization of business and communication, it is questionable how Business and Marketing students would cope with genres comprising not just writing, but multiple modes, if they do not possess multimodal literacy. Moreover, hypertextuality affects content (Xia, 2020), in turn creating differences in communicative purposes of the genre. Therefore, attempts to describe any online genre for ESP teaching need to consider the facets of multimodality and digitality. This thesis analyses the Online Product Information (OPI) genre, a micro genre of the online shopping website (Andersen & van Leeuwen, 2017). It exemplifies the application of a set of frameworks to comprehensively describe the OPI genre. Also important to this study is the possibility of culture specific differences. The analysis was based on a corpus of 480 New Zealand (NZ) and Sri Lankan (SL) beauty care and jewellery product information texts sourced from 32 online shopping websites along with 21 semi-structured interviews with specialist informants. Swales’ (1990) move structure analysis and selected resources from Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) Grammar of Visual Design were adopted to investigate the data sets. The analytical framework for website interactivity proposed by Adami (2015) was utilized and adapted to analyse the actions and effects of the interactive items used within OPIs. Fourteen common moves – eight interactive and six non-interactive - were identified for jewellery and beauty care OPIs. Some move steps are unique to one particular product category, while others are common to both. Cross-cultural differences were identified in the use of moves and steps. There are more steps employed in NZ product information to realise move functions, while the same functions are achieved in SL product information, but by using a more limited set of steps that are predominantly textual. Visually, the representational generic pattern characterizing OPI is the use of conceptual analytical structures with offer type images. The pattern was common to both countries. However, NZ beauty care product information utilizes some images of the narrative process and demand types, something which was not present in SL OPIs. The website interactivity analysis reveals that both the SL and NZ product information offer customers the basic necessities for viewing and selecting products (purchasing, selecting requirements, facilitating reading/ viewing). However, the cumulative effect one gets when investigating interactivity is of a closed insular environment with limited opportunity to request information/question sellers in a public space, and limited access to additional information. SL storeowners seem to be more interested in promoting their product via the customer through share options and giving additional seller services. NZ online stores, seem to be less focused on getting their product promoted via customers. Their interactive strategy seems to be providing customers with extra information. They also allow customers more opportunities to provide feedback without regulating that feedback, compared to SL OPIs. The OPI as a whole is informationally dense. It is distinguished by a high use of nouns, adjectives, co-ordinating conjunctions and third person singular present tense verbs, and a relatively low use of auxiliary verbs, adverbs, prepositions or subordinating conjunctions, determiners and modal verbs. Lexical bundles (frequently used word sequences) were identified for Move 3 – Promoting the product - to demonstrate the lexico-grammatical realisation of the move. The analysis indicates that steps operationalizing even a single move could employ a wide variety of linguistic features to realise that move, and that the patterns of language for the genre as a whole may not be a totally accurate indicator of the register of individual moves. The findings suggest the necessity of considering genre feature variation when crossing national boundaries. They also illustrate that the visual and interactive elements of an online multimodal genre play a significant role along with its textual elements, in determining the genre functions. Therefore, ESP teaching needs to consider how text, visuals and the online environment all contribute to achieving genre purposes, when raising students’ genre awareness of a multimodal genre. Implications of the study for ESP pedagogy and online businesses are provided in the Conclusion.

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A multi-level contrastive analysis of promotional strategies in specialised discourse

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Blanco

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Engaging with customer’s emotions

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Informational-persuasive discourse may be encoded in promotional strategies through which a given product is described in a positive way to persuade potential customers. For this, evaluation may appeal to reason or may tickle emotions (Cook, 2001). This study compares the way in which advertising texts for herbal tea engage with customers’ emotions in English and in Spanish. We examined the strategies of ‘enjoying the experience’ and ‘aesthetic appeal’ from an Appraisal Theory approach (Martin and White, 2005). We categorised these according to the attitude sub-systems of ‘affect’, ‘appreciation’, and ‘judgement’, determined how explicit the evaluation was, and identified gradable resources. Results show that English texts display more ‘affect’-like resources that can awaken a desire in the customer. By contrast, in the Spanish sample ‘appreciation’ resources that evaluate the composition of the product play a greater role. ‘Enjoying the experience’ seems to engage with the customers’ emotions more overtly than ‘aesthetic appeal’.

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‘Perfectly Smooth, Creamy and Full Flavoured’: Online Cheese Descriptions

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A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Online Product Information to Inform English for Specific Purposes

A Multimodal Genre Analysis of Online Product Information to Inform English for Specific Purposes

A multi-level contrastive analysis of promotional strategies in specialised discourse

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