Vol. 64 No. 1 (2016)
Note

A Note on Selected Brand Names of E-Cigarettes

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  • Frank Nuessel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2016.1118864

Published 2016-01-02

Keywords

  • Ragnarøk,
  • religious and mythological names,
  • lexicalization of names,
  • libfixing,
  • The Elder Edda,
  • Kvinden i Buret,
  • The Keeper of Lost Causes,
  • Jussi Adler-Olsen
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Abstract

This brief note has a fourfold purpose: (1) to define the concept of “e-cigarette”; (2) to discuss succinctly collateral aspects of e-cigarettes (product development, health and legal features, linguistic dimensions); (3) to explain the notion of brand name; and (4) to review selectively brand names for e-cigarettes in order to determine the marketing strategies employed. Finally, there is an appendix with a corpus of the selected e-cigarette brand names.

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