AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAG
lexical level
2.3.1 Gender identity in advertisements
While we found quite a lot of similarities in the choice of words, we have also found some delicate differences in the choice of words in the three types of advertisements as classified before: daily consumer goods ads, technical equipment ads, and service ads.
Language, as a communicative tool, is not only to impart information, to communicate ideas about a product, etc., but also to convey information about the relationship between the addresser (advertisement) and the addressee (the audience). An intimate relationship between the advertisement and the audience is always hoped to achieve. So according to different audience, language applied is different.
What constitutes a female and a male identity, according to advertising? Table 1, based on the language of advertising (Torben Vestergaard & Kim Schr der, 1981:74), gives the commodity profile of two gender-identified magazines: Women and Playboy and also provides the distribution of the different types of advertisements.
Table 1 Distribution of three types of advertisements
Percentage of ads
Women (%) Playboy (%)
Daily
Consumer
Goods
Hygiene 10 3
Beauty 18 1
Clothes 12 14
Food, Detergents 31 -
Tobacco 8 15
Beer, Spirits - 25
Leisure - 3
Technical
Equipment
Vehicle - 27
Radio, hi-fi - 4
Computer - 《AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAG》
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2.3.1 Gender identity in advertisements
While we found quite a lot of similarities in the choice of words, we have also found some delicate differences in the choice of words in the three types of advertisements as classified before: daily consumer goods ads, technical equipment ads, and service ads.
Language, as a communicative tool, is not only to impart information, to communicate ideas about a product, etc., but also to convey information about the relationship between the addresser (advertisement) and the addressee (the audience). An intimate relationship between the advertisement and the audience is always hoped to achieve. So according to different audience, language applied is different.
What constitutes a female and a male identity, according to advertising? Table 1, based on the language of advertising (Torben Vestergaard & Kim Schr der, 1981:74), gives the commodity profile of two gender-identified magazines: Women and Playboy and also provides the distribution of the different types of advertisements.
Table 1 Distribution of three types of advertisements
Percentage of ads
Women (%) Playboy (%)
Daily
Consumer
Goods
Hygiene 10 3
Beauty 18 1
Clothes 12 14
Food, Detergents 31 -
Tobacco 8 15
Beer, Spirits - 25
Leisure - 3
Technical
Equipment
Vehicle - 27
Radio, hi-fi - 4
Computer - 《AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAG》