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Advertisement has long been used as a tool for informing and attracting audiences in different ways. This study aims at investigating the linguistic tools of advertisement in Persian on the basis of Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar theory. The data of this study were gathered from written and verbal commercial advertisements which were recorded and rewritten in order to investigate verbal groups in the sentences in terms of process and function types and subsequently compare the two bodies. The results showed that material and relational processes had highest frequency in Persian language in terms of ideational metafunction. From the interpersonal metafunction perspective, information function was frequent in most cases. Regarding these factors, there was no significant difference between verbal and written bodies.

Social networks advertisements can be employed as a powerful means of communication to achieve goals such as sales, profitability and reinforcing brand image. Organizations managers have established a department titled “public relations” in their organizations, through which they communicate with individuals inside and outside the organization, so that they can fulfill their goals at lower costs and within shorter time by informing and persuading those individuals. In this regards, the present study is aimed at evaluating the extent to which public relations of private organizations employ social networks to introduce their products and services. Research population consists of managers and public relation experts of private sector’s organizations in Yazd, Iran. The present study takes a survey method and is regarded as field-work research. Sampling method is based probability and availability. Due to the limited population, 76 individuals were selected as the sample through limited population formula. Data was analyzed via Smart-PLS. results reveal that public relations of private organizations employ social networks at an optimal and acceptable level to introduce their products and services. Hence the hypothesis of the study is confirmed.

The basic objective of this study is to design the model of effectiveness of electronic advertisement on consumer buying behavior. The research population is customers and consumers of large food stores in Shiraz that used a store's website. The sample of this study is as big as 400 people. Cluster random sampling method based on visible traits in the population with the highest estimated number of customers with a cautionary view was carried out. To evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire in this study, Cronbach's alpha was used. Cronbach's alpha was estimated 92%for the whole questionnaires and fluctuated between76%and 98% for its subscales. In order to analyze the data of questionnaires and to test the hypotheses, factor analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were used. The results show that by rejecting the first hypothesis and confirming the rest of assumptions and other relationships between the independent, mediator and dependent variables, the whole model is generally acceptable. This means that content and communication stimuli would get to the behavioral reaction phase after the process of influencing.