Luxury brands and linguistics: What does luxury sound like?Luxury is a subjective concept; what may be a luxurious treat to some can be an everyday item to others. However, there are traits that help identify a brand as a luxury item. How a brand name sounds, how it rolls off the tongue, and how the brain interprets and processes each sound within the name can deliver a wealth of information to consumers.
Recently, together with Dr Carlos Velasco of the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, we set out to uncover what it is that makes a brand sound luxurious and whether it may be possible to establish a scientific framework for the formulation of luxury brand names.
Source: ACI – Luxury brands and linguistics: What does luxury sound like?
