On Linguistic Features in Advertising English
Abstract
Advertising takes many forms, in most of which, however, language is of crucial importance and the language is required to be simple and sweet. Thus a comprehensive analysis on the linguistic features in advertising English is worthwhile. As advertising English is characterized by many special features, there arises the demand that the advertising copywriter be engaged in creative writing. It is to be understood that advertising English is not merely a business of words, but also a kind of original English with its peculiar features. This thesis tries to study advertising language in linguistic perspectives and employs the following two approaches: the analytic method, by which to examine advertising English and its linguistic features; and the paradigmatic method, by which to exemplify specific cases for the illustration of the described features. As advertising English is characterized by unique morphology and syntax and as so many rhetorical devices are found in it, this thesis presents an analytical study of the linguistic features in English advertisements at lexical, syntactic and rhetorical levels. It is hoped that by studying the linguistic features of advertising English this thesis will be of some help in comprehending and translating English advertisements for those copywriters and advertising English learners.
Key Words: advertising English; linguistic features; morphology; syntax; rhetorical devices
摘 要
廣告有多種表現形式，但語言是廣告的精髓部分，是最能打動人心的部分。廣告具有鮮明的目的性，即說服顧客進行購買，這種目的`性決定了其語言的特色性風格：簡潔甜美，因此廣告很值得在語言學的範疇內研究。由於廣告英語有其自身的特點，因此廣告撰稿人有必要積極從事於創造性的寫作。眾所周知，廣告英語不僅僅是有關字詞的堆積問題，而且是1種語言特點有其獨到之處的英語語體。因廣告英語有其獨特的詞法、句法和修辭手法，所以本文通過查閱有關廣告英語的資料，在國內外主要報紙和網路上收集了1些英語廣告例項，結合相關學者在研究廣告英語例項中的理論依據、研究步驟及其研究方法，採用分析法和例證法來對這些書面英語廣告的語言來進行分析，旨在通過分析而總結出廣告英語在詞彙﹑句法﹑修辭手法這3個層面上的語言特點。衷心希望此論文的分析結果能給英語廣告的寫作者以及廣告英語的學習者提供幫助，也希望通過本文能夠對理解，欣賞，創作和準確地翻譯英文廣告起到1定的幫助作用。
關鍵詞：廣告英語、語言特點、詞彙、句法、修辭手法
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