一.引言
广告,就是“广而告之”,即广泛地告知公众某种事物的宣传活动。著名的美国市场营销协会(American Marketing Association,即AMA)给广告下了这样的定义:广告是由特定的广告主通常以付费的方式通过各种传播媒体对产品、劳务或观念等信息的非个人介绍及推广(Advertising is the nonpersonal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products,services or ideas by identified sponsors though the various media)。