Abstract
It is an object of interest what kinds of changes happen in the advertising slogans in the digitalization process which has transformed the structure and reach of advertising. This study aims to reveal the differences between the use of figures of speech in traditional and digital advertising slogans. In this regard, the slogans of 1510 award-winning advertisements in the categories of press, region and digital of Kırmızı Awards in Turkey in between 2004 and 2018 were selected through purposive sampling method. The slogans of the advertisements were content-analyzed via MAXQDA 2020 data analysis program in terms of the figures of speech classification: trope-related, meaning-related, and scheme-related figures of speech. As a result, it was found out that while pun was the most used trope-related figure of speech, the most preferred meaning-related one was hyperbole, and the most frequent scheme-related one was homeoptoton. Furthermore, when compared in terms of the award categories, the findings indicated that while the slogans in the digital category lacked the use of anaphora, those in the press and region categories included anaphora though at a low rate; metaphor was the most used scheme-related figure of speech in the advertisements of the digital category, and that the advertising slogans in the press and region categories employed rhetorical question less than those in the digital category. In addition, some significant differences appeared in the use of figures of speech by press, region and digital categories in terms of sectors.