International product sales are increasingly important for most companies. As a result, cross-border brand naming is becoming a significant marketing issue. This article describes linguistic assets such as phonetics (sounds), etymology (roots of words) and rhetoric (persuasive discourse) and proposes a comprehensive framework for analysing how these linguistic assets transfer (or do not transfer) to a number of target linguistic contexts. Using this analysis, managers should follow the ‘Joyce principle’ and attempt to build meaningful brand names across languages, thus adding value to their global brand names.

This paper proposes a framework for analyzing linguistic assets to create meaningful international brand names by following the 'Joyce principle' and analyzing their transfer to various linguistic contexts.

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Using linguistics for creating better international brand names

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