دانلود رایگان مقاله فروش محیط زیست: مباحثه در مورد بازاریابی سبز در تبلیغات خودرو چین

abstract

Despite the substantial advance of environmental communication research over the past decade, studies Q3 on green marketing discourse in non-Western contexts have been relatively sparse. To address this research gap, this article examines the multimodal discursive means through which the concept of “nature” is constructed in recent automobile advertisements in China. Following the analytical framework of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the article analyzes a total of 24 advertisements that were produced between 2013 and 2014 by four top-selling automobile brands in China. The data analysis reveals a consistent ideological separation between nature and human society in the analyzed advertisements: “nature” is constantly framed as either a valuable commodity for human consumption or an added value for high-end car models that in fact have low energy efficiency (e.g. luxury SUVs and sedans). Implicitly, these advertisements also appropriate the growing public concern on China's deteriorating environment through green consumerism. The above findings not only deconstruct the operations of specific advertisements and how they contribute to problematic environmental narratives; they also situate China's deepening ecological crisis within the broader context of neoliberalism, the ubiquitous doctrine underlying today's global economy. Overall, this article invites readers to consider the irresolvable contradiction of green capitalism and market-based environmentalism: the benefit offered by technological innovation is often offset by the endless pursuit of material consumption growth.

. Concluding remarks

In the late 1970s, Dallas Smythe, a founding figure in the political economy of communication, went to China to study the country's technology and path of development. After witnessing China's mindset to “catch up with the West” by aggressively embracing Western technologies and consumer goods, Smythe (1994) asked a provocative question in his research report: “After bicycles, what”? In essence, Smythe was questioning the fundamental developmental path of China and the viability of China's search for a genuine alternative to Western modernity (Zhao, 2007). As time moves on, Smythe's concern has gained new relevance in contemporary China. Today, automobiles fill up China's streets and the country, once celebrated as the “kingdom of bicycles,” has become the biggest growing market for private vehicles. Nevertheless, excessive automobile consumption is not an ecologically sustainable option for heavy populated China.