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AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FEATURES IN ENGLISH ADVERTISEMENTS

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摘要 本文旨在通过对书面英语广告的语言分析总结出广告英语在词汇﹑句法﹑篇章上的语言特点。为了使研究从数据出发得出科学结论,本文作者建立了一个拥有60篇各类广告的小型语料库。通过对此语料库中日用品广告﹑科技设备广告﹑服务业广告的深入细致的定量和定性分析,总结出广告英语在此三类广告中的相同点与不同点,并且根据语言的意义,风格及功能解释广告英语的共性以及广告英语在不同类型广告中的特殊性。

本文共分五个部分,第一部分和第五部分分别为介绍与总结,中间三个部分为本文核心,分别展开广告英语在词汇﹑句法﹑篇章三个层面的分析。本文的结论均来自于对语料库的分析。整个研究从数据出发,由数据驱动,由此进行语言学上的分析与概括。

本文作者衷心希望此论文的分析结果能给英语广告的写作者以及广告英语的学习者提供帮助。

 

关键词: 广告英语,词汇,句法,篇章,相同点,不同点

 

Abstract

This paper presents an analytical study of the language features of English advertisements at lexical, syntactic and discourse levels. In order to conduct a data-driven study, the author builds a corpus of 60 English advertisements. It is hoped that through the detailed survey of three types of advertisements: namely, daily consumer goods ads, technical equipment ads, service ads, similarities and differences in advertising language features can be summarized and possible reasons will be given in the light of the meaning, and function of language.

This paper will be presented in five parts. The first part is the introduction and the last conclusion. The focus of the paper is laid on the three middle parts which respectively analyze language features at lexical, syntactic and discourse levels. The conclusion of this paper is drawn from the data analysis. In the analysis, examples from the corpus will be given; figures, tables and graphs will also be offered to make the paper understandable and persuasive.

It is hoped that the study can shed light on the language features of advertisements and also provide help to copy writers and advertising English learners.

 

KEYWORDS: English Advertisements, Lexical, Syntactic, Discourse,

Similarities, Differences

 

Contents

1.Introduction ………………………………………………………………1
1.1Rationale of the study ……………………………………………………...1
1.2Definition of advertising …………………………………………………...1
1.3Focus of the present study …………………………………………………1
1.4Sources of data …………………………………………………………….2
2.Lexical features ……………………………………………………………2
2.1Classification of advertising and its audience …………………………….. 2
2.2Similarities at the lexical level …………………………………………….3
2.2.1Few verbs are used ………………………………………………………...3
2.2.2Use of emotive words ……………………………………………………..4
2.2.3Make pun and alliteration ………………………………………………….4
2.2.4Use of weasel words ……………………………………………………….5
2.3Differences at the lexical level …………………………………………….6
2.3.1Gender identity in advertisements………………………………………….6
2.3.2Selection of Adjectives ……………………………………………………7
2.3.3Compound words ………………………………………………………….8
2.3.4Use of pronouns ……………………………………………………………8
3.Syntactical features ………………………………………………………9
3.1Similarities …………………………………………………………………9
3.2Differences …………………………………………………………………10
3.2.1Headlines …………………………………………………………………..10
3.2.2Comparison of headlines of different types of ads ………………………...11
4.Discourse features...………………………………………………………..12
4.1Body copy of advertisements ……………………………………………...12
4.2Differences in body copy …………………………………………….12
5.Conclusion …………………………………………………………………14

Acknowledgement

Sincere thanks go to Dr. Wei Naixing for his insightful guidance and earnest help all through the searching, analysis and paper-writing stages.

The author also wants to extend her thanks to Ms. Linda Frost who has given much help in data collecting.

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