Marketing, Rhetoric and Control

The Magical Foundations of Marketing Theory

Christopher Miles

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Routledge
20 April 2018

Sales & marketing

Series: Routledge Studies in Marketing

Marketing, Rhetoric and Control investigates the tensions that surround the place of persuasion (and, more broadly, control) in marketing. Persuasion has variously been seen as an embarrassment to the discipline, a target for anti-marketing sentiment, the source of marketing’s value in the modern organisation, a mysterious black box inside the otherwise rational and logical endeavour of enterprise, and a rather insignificant part of the marketing programme. This book argues that this multifarious reputation for persuasion within marketing stems from the influence of two quite oppositional paradigms – the scientific and the magico-rhetorical – that ebb and flow across the discourses of its discipline and practice.

Constructing an interface between original, challenging close readings of texts from the beginnings of the Western rhetorical tradition and an examination of the ways in which marketing has set about describing itself, this text argues for a Sophistic interpretation of marketing. From this perspective, marketing is understood as providing intermediary services to facilitate the continuing exchange of attention and regard between firm/client and stakeholders. It seeks to manage and direct this exchange through an appreciation of the changing rational and irrational motivations of the firm and stakeholders, using these as resources for the construction of both planned and improvised persuasive interactions in agonistic (or competitive) environments.

This book is aimed primarily at researchers and academics working in the fields of marketing, marketing communications, and the related disciplines of marketing theory, critical marketing, and digital marketing. It will also be of value to marketing academics in business schools, including those working in the areas of media and communication studies who have an interest in commercial and corporate communication, brand use of interactive media, and communication theory.

By: Christopher Miles
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138667273
ISBN 10: 1138667277
Series: Routledge Studies in Marketing
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 20 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 A History of Rhetoric for Marketers Chapter 2 Marketing Scholarship and Rhetoric Chapter 3 Control and the Discourse of Marketing Science Chapter 4 A Rhetorical Approach to Marketing as Exchange Chapter 5 Marketing and Sophism – a comparison Chapter 6 Magic, Sympathy, and Language Chapter 7 The Magical Roots of Rhetoric Chapter 8 Magical Persuasion and Marketing Chapter 9 A Sophistic Marketing

Chris Miles is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing & Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.

Reviews for Marketing, Rhetoric and Control: The Magical Foundations of Marketing Theory

There is nothing mere about rhetoric. Long demonised and often misrepresented, rhetoric is an ancient artform whose time has come. As Miles shows in this exemplary text, rhetoric is central to the modern marketing condition. Marketers' seemingly magical ability to cast spells of delight, desire, distinction over delirious consumers is rooted in their rhetorical acumen. A sagacious review of the principal rhetorical traditions and a brilliantly-written reading of marketing principles and practices, Miles' book is a rhetorical triumph. In a word, it's magic! -Stephen Brown, Ulster University, United Kingdom