Enchantment Strategies in Polish Radio Commercials:
An Ethnographic Approach
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Opole University of Technology
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Polish Sociological Review 2007;159(3):341-360
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ABSTRACT
The article investigates the linguistic reflection of post-modernist sociological theory (e.g. Campbell
1989; Baudrillard 1979, 1998; Ritzer 2001) in the case study of Polish radio commercials. I assumed that
radio commercials are a communicative event of the post-modern society. Furthermore, they a simulated
event: a guided conversation, which is imbued, in Eliade’s terminology, with the function of coincidencia
oppositorum. The source of 310 radio commercials serves to single out enchantment strategies in the
commercial idiolect, reflecting the seduction, fetishism and the decline of the moral posture of autarchy in
contemporary society.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that helped strengthen this article