The pragmatics of luxury

  • Marisa Diez-Arroyo Universidad de Oviedo

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This paper investigates the lexical items used in online automobile advertising to characterize the motorcar as a luxury product. The main questions examined are, firstly, how certain words are interpreted as denoting luxury concepts by potential readers, and, secondly, whether luxury and non-luxury marques differ in the use of these units. The issues here are addressed from a double theoretical framework: a theory of luxury, which allows for the identification and classification of the vocabulary of luxury, and Relevance Theory, a pragmatic model which explains how words are subject to pragmatic modulation during interpretation, leading to the construction of ad hoc concepts.

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2020-07-09
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Diez-Arroyo M. (2020). The pragmatics of luxury. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 83, 25-39. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.70561
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