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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations | | French term or phrase: acteurs en séance dédicace | Ok, I'm a bit stumped here. This phrase occurs in a proposal for a major European household electrical goods retailer to set up a store at a big site. It comes up in a bulleted list of "things" that the company will do as part of their sales promotion:
• Grande ouverture évènementielle
• Concours divers
• Site internet
• Démonstrations diverses: gaming, cuisine, musique etc.
• Promotions de vente en permanence
• Cours d’Apple
• Acteurs en séance « dédicace »
I'm really chewing my pencil about this last one - so any help would be most gratefully received! |
|  Susan McDonaldKudoZ activityQuestions: 44 (none open) ( 1 without valid answers) ( 3 closed without grading) Answers: 6
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| | actors' autograph signing | Explanation:
Assuming that for some reaosn they are referring to real actors (rather than 'players' in some kind of activity), I'd say it is usually autographs that personalities are likely to be signing — Cf. the recent 'sortie' on TF1's « Carré Viip » telereality programme!
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Note added at 11 minutes (2011-04-01 08:20:44 GMT)
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Although it's probably not given as such in the dictionaries, I've very often heard 'dédicace' used in colloquial language on TV etc. for 'autograph', especially when they are in the form of signed photos, for example. |
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Tony M
France
Local time: 17:47
| Grading comment Thanks, Tony. Just what was needed!
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5 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 actors' autograph signing
Explanation:
Assuming that for some reaosn they are referring to real actors (rather than 'players' in some kind of activity), I'd say it is usually autographs that personalities are likely to be signing — Cf. the recent 'sortie' on TF1's « Carré Viip » telereality programme!
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Note added at 11 minutes (2011-04-01 08:20:44 GMT)
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Although it's probably not given as such in the dictionaries, I've very often heard 'dédicace' used in colloquial language on TV etc. for 'autograph', especially when they are in the form of signed photos, for example.
| Tony M
France
Local time: 17:47
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 51
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| | Grading comment | Thanks, Tony. Just what was needed! |
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| Apr 3, 2011 - Changes made by Susan McDonald: | | Created KOG entry | KudoZ term => KOG term | | Apr 1, 2011 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais: | | Term asked | acteurs en séance \"dédicace\" => acteurs en séance dédicace | | Field (specific) | Retail => Advertising / Public Relations |
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