JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching)
Vol 3 No 1 (2019)

AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE STYLES USED IN REVLON’S WRITTEN ADVERTISEMENTS

Maria Rentiana Koa (Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 May 2019

Abstract

The objectives of this research are (1) to find out the linguistic features used in Revlon advertisements,(2)to describe the persuasion techniques of language style used in Revlon advertisements,and (3) to find out the most dominant linguistic feature used in Revlon advertisements.This research was conducted by using qualitative and discourse analysis method.The researcher used 31 Revlon advertisements.The research data were collected by choosing the clauses or phrases from Revlon Cosmetics which showed some linguistics features and persuasion techniques.Research findings showed that (1) there were two linguistic features used in Revlon advertisements. They were lexical feature and syntactic feature. (2) the persuasion techniques that used in Revlon were pioneering stage, competitive stage and retentive stage. (3) the most dominant linguistic feature used in lexical feature was simple vocabulary which occurred 58.82% while in syntactic feature was incomplete sentence which occurred 30.43%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jellt

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching) is a refereed publication devoted to research articles, and reports concerned with the teaching and learning of English, language in education, language planning, language testing, curriculum design and material development, multilingualism ...