Languages and Global Marketing

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Handbook of Language and Globalization
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages475-492
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9781405175814
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Oct 2010

Keywords

  • Construction of globalization-through "i'm lovin' it"
  • Differentiation and segmentation in global marketing
  • Differentiation, involving heteroglossic play, code-switching and mixing and non-standard usages
  • Internationalization, main contribution-as economic theory, challenging globalization paradigm
  • Language, differentiating a product-becoming part of its USP
  • Languages and global marketing
  • Linguistic differentiation and linguistic segmentation-competing forces of homogenization and heterogenization
  • Marketing, "unique selling proposition" (USP)-created for one particular product
  • McDonald's-as agents of global linguistic and cultural homogenization
  • Message of campaign-"connection with the customer"-seeking to depict universal images of "how people live"

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