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policies and implementation. These consequences can be best visualized in today’s world amidst the
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market consumers. The author, by making use of critical discourse analysis, is able to identify the
linguistic and visual techniques utilized by corporations and which messages they try to express in their
environmental advertising. Liu focuses on the corporeal method used by the corporations to architect
their environmental narratives, which she succeeds in highlighting the delicacy in the tactics they
deliberately use to shape the public perception of their environmental promises. The author skillfully
detects the different adjectives alongside the imagery employed by companies in trying to instill the
impression of environmental responsiveness. Besides that, Liu’s studies make reviews of the
environmental claims framed in several cultural backgrounds. It states some essential features of
environmental advertising in China, giving a contrasting image of these features that make corporations
adopt a specific environmental discourse across the globe. However, with this thesis being of particular
interest for the scholars as well as practitioners, related particularly to environmental communication,
advertising, and organizational social responsibility. It is an in-depth description of a variety of factors
that work intricately and enables future studies to be well informed about environmental advertising.
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whole. On top of that it provides a well-developed analysis of such advertising strategies that are applied
in the Chinese market, offering a broader view on advertising as a tool of influencing public perception of
environmental problems. Through this, anyone, interested in this issue should read it and understands
how the relationship between pro-environmental advertising, corporate environmental responsibility,
and public perception works.