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Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Centrum för lärande, kultur och samhälle (CLKS).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0570-3226
2020 (Swedish)In: Meijerbergs arkiv for svensk ordforskning, ISSN 0348-7741, no 44, p. 97-111Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This article is about names of make-up (nail polishes, lipsticks and eye shadows) of six Swedish make-up companies. In total, the names of 272 products are studied. The research question is how product names are a resource of identification in the companies’ textual descriptions of themselves. The names are, thus, highlighted against a background of buzzwords in the texts. The results show that there are two types of identity offers, the exotic-luxurious-romantic and the domestic-ecological-sustainable, which is also reflected in the language choice of the names. The analysis is based on a social ideological framework, which shows that there is a difference that is visible in the make-up names with regard to the change in feminism and the growth of the sustainability ideologies in recent decades. The study confirms that make-up names are a linguistic resource used in company narratives to offer customers specific identities.

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Göteborg: Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning , 2020. no 44, p. 97-111
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names and text, product names, make up names, femininity, feminism, sustainability
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43718OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-43718DiVA, id: diva2:1511637
Available from: 2020-12-18 Created: 2020-12-18 Last updated: 2020-12-22Bibliographically approved

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