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Singing Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multimodal Analysis of the 2018 Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial
Dalarna University, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Sound and Music Production.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7097-3380
2020 (English)In: Linguae &. Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, ISSN 2281-8952, E-ISSN 1724-8698, Vol. 19, no 1, p. 155-171Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The 2018 Super Bowl Commercial of the Budweiser Beer is entitled “Stand by You” and revolves around the pluriannual Water Donation Program ofthe Anheuser-Busch brewing company. The video features images of the employees of the Budweiser Cartersville, GA brewery organizing the emergency drinking water delivery with the help of American Red Cross, its partner in such disaster-relief efforts over the past 30 years. The images are accompanied by a cover of the 1961 Ben E. King iconic song “Stand by me”. Adopting a socio-semiotic multimodal perspective, the paper aims at analyzing the meaning-making construction of the video in its YouTube contextualization. In detail, the focus of the paper is to understand how the sound and the lyrics of the cover, with their cultural, linguistic and semiotic layers of meaning, constitute the semiotic entry point in the narration and create the soundscape for the framing of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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2020. Vol. 19, no 1, p. 155-171
Keywords [en]
Multimodality, Social Media Discourse, Social Semiotics, Soundscapes, Systemic-Functional Linguistics
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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Research Profiles 2009-2020, Intercultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-34613DOI: 10.7358/ling-2020-001-mowiISI: 000552271300011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-34613DiVA, id: diva2:1455601
Available from: 2020-07-27 Created: 2020-07-27 Last updated: 2025-10-09Bibliographically approved

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