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Publication details [#54746]

García Vizcaíno, María José. 2011. Humor in code-mixed airline advertising. Pragmatics 21 (1) : 145–170.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This article examines how humor works in the code-mixed advertising campaigns of the Spanish airline company Vueling. Using the fetishism approach to multilingual advertising (Kelly-Holmes, 2005) and incongruity theory (Raskin, 1985), this study examines three major types (structural, phonetic, and visual) of humorous deviations in Vueling campaigns, that involve the insertion of foreign languages (mainly English and French) into Spanish colloquial expressions.