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Językoznawstwo baner

No. 8 (2014)

Articles

Is it in English? Ok, then I’ll take it!

Published: 2014-10-01

Abstract

The attractiveness of English language or actually its marketing value seems to be widely discussed and deeply understood issue these days. I tried to examine what may be the reason that there are so many English names of products and companies on Polish market. I wanted to analyze whether the language itself is so attractive or maybe there exists some sort of social pressure to like English words in advertisements. To find out the answer for the upper mentioned question it was deeply interesting to use linguistics studies theory and psychological theory, which in this case coexist in a genuinely coherent way. There are situations in which the English name seems ridiculous and hilarious, so another contribution of this paper was to present some examples and explanations of such a marketing strategy.

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