This pear is a rhetorical tool: Food imagery in energy company advertising

Environmental Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-370

  Cozen, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Energy Companies; Environmental Communication; Food as Fuel; Visual Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650139000     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2010.499212     Document Type: Article

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