This study investigates the generic structure and promotional elements of the online fiction blurbs accompanying the 95 best-selling books from Amazon United Kingdom and Okuoku Turkey (1999-2011), a company that sells books online that are written in Turkish or translated into Turkish, and adds to the growing number of investigations into this genre (Kathpalia, 1997; Bhatia, 2004; Cacchiani, 2007; Gea-Valor, 2007; Gesuato, 2007; Basturkmen, 2009). Based on the findings, a two-level schematic structure (moves and steps) is proposed for the blurbs following Swales (1990). The findings suggest that Amazon UK book blurbs have a six-move schematic structure: complimenting the author, book description, justifying the book by establishing a niche,...
Bestseller and blockbuster culture includes new ways of producing, distributing and experiencing med...
The article comprehends and analyzes the forms of indirect advertising and promotion of literature i...
Backcover blurbs (BCBs) are instances of promotional literature. They publicize the contents of book...
Blurbs are short descriptions of the contents of books usually written on their back covers for prom...
The purpose of this paper is to present a preliminary approach to the study of blurbs, brief texts t...
This paper demonstrates that book blurbs position the book as product and inform potential readers a...
This paper analyses the organizational structure of academic BCBBs, identifying and classifying thei...
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the syntactic level of promotional language in fiction ...
This study focuses on the book industry homepage, a digital genre which has emerged as a result of t...
Šis maģistra darbs salīdzina daiļliteratūras un zinātniskās literatūras grāmatu reklāmu anotāciju ž...
The article considers advertising and book market interactions: analysis of advertising in publishin...
Blurb is created to help the reader to answer the question why he should spend his time and money on...
[EN] This study focuses on the book industry homepage, a digital genre which has emerged as a result...
This paper studies the generic move structure of the blurbs of Electronic Socio-romantic novels publ...
<div>This graduation project for a Master's Degree in English-Spanish translation from the Universid...
Bestseller and blockbuster culture includes new ways of producing, distributing and experiencing med...
The article comprehends and analyzes the forms of indirect advertising and promotion of literature i...
Backcover blurbs (BCBs) are instances of promotional literature. They publicize the contents of book...
Blurbs are short descriptions of the contents of books usually written on their back covers for prom...
The purpose of this paper is to present a preliminary approach to the study of blurbs, brief texts t...
This paper demonstrates that book blurbs position the book as product and inform potential readers a...
This paper analyses the organizational structure of academic BCBBs, identifying and classifying thei...
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the syntactic level of promotional language in fiction ...
This study focuses on the book industry homepage, a digital genre which has emerged as a result of t...
Šis maģistra darbs salīdzina daiļliteratūras un zinātniskās literatūras grāmatu reklāmu anotāciju ž...
The article considers advertising and book market interactions: analysis of advertising in publishin...
Blurb is created to help the reader to answer the question why he should spend his time and money on...
[EN] This study focuses on the book industry homepage, a digital genre which has emerged as a result...
This paper studies the generic move structure of the blurbs of Electronic Socio-romantic novels publ...
<div>This graduation project for a Master's Degree in English-Spanish translation from the Universid...
Bestseller and blockbuster culture includes new ways of producing, distributing and experiencing med...
The article comprehends and analyzes the forms of indirect advertising and promotion of literature i...
Backcover blurbs (BCBs) are instances of promotional literature. They publicize the contents of book...