Finding relevance in smartphone advertising
Smartphone ads compete for the user’s attention, which is initially intended to focus on other areas of the small
screen of the device. Despite this competition, smartphone advertisements aim to produce as much cognitive reward as possible in
exchange for the mental effort expended in their processing, that is, they aim at the audience’s relevance, as claimed by
relevance theory (
Sperber and Wilson 1995), a theory in which cyberpragmatics (
Yus 2011) is rooted. This paper addresses several key qualities of effective smartphone
advertising from a cyberpragmatics perspective that focuses on possible sources of relevance of online communication, and now
applied to smartphone ads. Furthermore, it is claimed that today’s smartphone-based advertising cannot be accounted for
pragmatically without the incorporation of key terms such as
contextual constraint and
non-propositional
effect, which add to more traditional pragmatic accounts of online communication (
Yus 2017a,
2021a).
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The specificity of smartphone advertising
- 2.1Contextual constraints
- 2.2Aiming at relevance in smartphone advertising
- 3.Relevance through engagement
- 3.1Engaging users on social media
- 3.2Engaging through enhanced and shared identity
- 3.3Engaging through electronic word-of-mouth
- 4.Concluding remarks
- Notes
-
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