1. The language of advertising
... used gives the products a scientific basis and this makes the products seems more effective to the reader. I also found, especially in skin care ads, that the juxtaposition of negative emotive language and positive emotive language was used to contrast the negative skin disorder/abnormality with the positive effects of the product. For example in an ad for Dove Skin Care, negative ... to sexual innuendo. Others make the ads seems full of substance and fact, such as statistics, and jargon. Language which is conversational and colloquial creates a personal tone between the reader and adver...
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