A Rhetorical Analysis of Advertisement Language

科技信息人文社科A Rhetorical Analysis of Advertisement Language菏澤學(xué)院外國語(yǔ)系祝麗 麗[Abstract ]Advertisements are penetrating into our daily life. Rhetorical stategies are always employed for persuaion in advertisements. Thearticle analyzes the advertisements from the rhetorical angle mainly using the theory of‘communication triangle' '. It is very interesting to seehow the advetsement applies the appropriate strategies to atain the proper targets.[Key words]nhetoric ethos pathos logos advertisemeit1. Introductionpersusion" by Aristotle. He thought“when trust to the speaker is producedPerhaps the most prevalent, most ubiquitous form of persuasive discourseby delivering a speech in the audience, the persuasion gets a realizationin today' S world is advertising. w hether in the visual medium or in the soundthrough personality' . Genaeally, no matter what the topic of discussion is, themedium, advertising is inescapable. Ads are primarily the forms of spoken orperson of justice always wins our larger trust more quickly. If there is no accu-graphic discourses (or combinations of spoken and graphic) that try to get therate knowledge conceming the discussing topie and 8 a result there still existsreader or the listener to buy a product or service. Generally speaking, a gooddoubt, such a speaker will win our complete trust. The trust to the speakeradvertisement should possess the function of attracting attention, deepeningmust come from the speech, instead of the view about the speaker 5 personali-memory and inducing purchase. Rhetoric is generally considered 8 a tool thatty which has already existed before the speech. Rhetoricians should establishcan be used to construct arguments in, expectation of a. deaired outcome.their credit and authority on intelligence, morality, justice and profession toAd- -writes are some of the mokilfulthetoicians.They may never haveof persuasion. Rhetoricians must show theinspiring person-achuevethe Bpoat o Per8suasioD Rthectoncians ust sno”ality to win the reepect and trust of the audience and take advantage of thisancient art to influence the ttitudes and actions of those who are exposed toprestige to effect the audience' 's decision. Just because of the important func-the ads that they compose. The analysis that follows will point out some of thetion of individual personality and prestige on rhetorical action, advertisingrhetorical strategies used in advertisement language.rhetoricians always appeal to ethos.2. Rhetoric, persuasion and advertisemnentWe usually see some products select some healthy and popular publicIt can be seen from the westemn rhetorie history the close relationship be-person as the image spokesperson because the personal charm of celebrity cantween rhetoric and persuasion. Persuasion is the process in which through thebe transferred to the advertising products. Film stars and social celebrities aredelivery of symbls the idea or activity of others is inluenced in a nonviolencealways the people atracting publie foeus. All the publie know about theway to atain an anticipant purpose. James Herick thought the history ofelebrities is their perfect sides unless there is some news afecting their per-theoric art mostly concentrated on making use of phonetic symbol system tosonality. To some extent the personal prestige possessed by the celebrity en-attain persuasion. Pluto thought rhetorie is the art of winning the soul by dis-dows the advertisement authority and increase its persuasion. There is anothercourse. Aristotle defined rhetoric 日the faculty of observing in any given casereason that the public have litle knowledge about the new product. As a re-the available means of persuasion. Cicero simply defned thetoric as thesult, their decision depends more on the rhetoricians they trust. In celebrity. speech designed to persuade. Burke, the representative of new rhetoric, be-adventisement, public' S trust on the product comes from the celebrity theyasic function of rhetoric is the use of words by human agents tolowe. And they are influenced and persuaded unconsciously.form atitudes or to induce actions in other human agents. enerally speaking,, celebrtry adver-tisements, such as Jackie Chan' g shampoo ad, Jet Li's apparel ad, Jay Chou'sways to infuence other' s cognition, atitude and behavior, which is in accor -food ad and Yao Ming's ad. All these ads make use of the popularity, gooddance with what business advertisement pursues. For moving and persuadingimage and credit of celebrities to increase the sale of the products.consumer to notice, understand, believe, like and eventually purchase the2) Pathos, as the sentiment appealing, has a closer relationship with theproduct or service advertisement promoted, advertising companies have toaudience.think to the utmost the ways to win consumer. Just because of the conmon tar-Aristodle said, pathos is“putting the audieince into a certain frame ofget and pursuing, the westerm rhetoric that has a long history can providemind". He thought people make diferent decision when they are in sad, hap-abundant and available resources for the design of advertisement. Only bypy, friendly or hateful state. It is because people are not absolutely sensiblecentering around the consumers and adopting homologous rhetoric strategyand they are often controlled by emotion. Rhetorician can use some rhetoricalaccording to the specific situation, can advertising be placed in a beneficialtechniques to put the audience in the most advantagous and suitable frame ofposition in the interaction and contact with consumers.mind. Through establishing reliable personality rhetorician can inspire audi-3. The rhetoric strategies used in advertisement persuasionence' s amicable mood 80 as to make preparation for the next persuasion.Acording to Aristotle, there are two kinds of argument:Different audiences have different psychological features that are also1) non-aristic or non- technical arguments or means of persuain: notconnected with the audience's sex, age, acquirement, character, interest andreally part of thetoric. Orators did not have to invent these; they had merely tocircumstance. It i important to control audience' s peychological mechanismuse them. Aristole named five kinds of non- artistic profs: laws, witnesses,that can improve the communicative ffciency of language. If rhetorician ig-contracts, tortures, oaths.nores the group psychology of the communicating objects or doesn't have2) artistic profs:“artistic" in the sense that they fell within the provincecomplete knowledge about their psychology, the communicative ffct can beof art of rhetoric: rational appeal ( logos), emotional appeal ( pathios), and ethi-infuenced. Therefore it is important to understand and satisfy audience's s0-cal appeal (ethos).cial and culural psychology in ad communication.According to traditional rhetoric, the fllowingl diagram can captureNestle Coffee appeals to the popular message "the taste, is great" torhetorical appeals:arouse the emotional resonance from the audience. As the famous advertise-subject- matter (logoa)ment goes“A diamond is Forever , diamond is expensive and not life necessi-ty. So customers are very cautious when buying it As the hardest and most ex-pensive precious stone in the gemological family, diamond is best known as thevery iconic symbol for etemal love. What customers think a lot is its symbolictextspeaker/writerlistener/readermeaning. Therefore, advertisement designers give prominence to the eternal(pathos)(ehos)digam shows, to infuence the listener or the reader, three中國煤化工son. Harving a logos ppeal al-80 enhus the speaker lo knowledge-able aCNMH(C Jing impressive logos to the au-cian's use of non-logical appeals to put the audience into a frame of mind thatdienceTna; knowleageaple on mne lopic, rhetorician can better persuadewill make them less hostile to his arguments; logos, the logical or rational ele -the audience to understand the theme of topic.ments of the discourse.Rhetoriceal syllogism put forward by Aristotle is regarded a the core of1) Rhetorician' s character was regarded 8s the“most efective way ofprobable argument. It is made up of a premise anda (下轉第 158頁(yè))-156--科技信息人文社科被譯為英語(yǔ)break的可能性。實(shí)驗結果表明實(shí)驗對象根據直覺(jué)對17個(gè)綜 上所述，在第二語(yǔ)言習得過(guò)程中,母語(yǔ)遷移是不可避免的,并受句子的“可直譯性”或“可遷移性的排序與他們對“"breken"各語(yǔ)義的“核到多種因素 的制約。而關(guān)于母語(yǔ)遷移理論已經(jīng)在研究方向，研究領(lǐng)域及心性”或“典型性"的排序成正相關(guān)。Kellerman 因此得出結論:(1)二語(yǔ)研究方法等方面取得了重大進(jìn)展。母語(yǔ)遷移已經(jīng)從行為主義和心靈主學(xué)習者對母語(yǔ)語(yǔ)義典型性的直黨可用來(lái)預測母語(yǔ)形式的可遷移性。(2)學(xué)習者對母語(yǔ)可遷移性的直覺(jué)不受二語(yǔ)水平和認知能力變化的影響。的研究;從對母語(yǔ)作用的孤立研究拓展為在多學(xué)科交叉領(lǐng)域內對其進(jìn)(3)學(xué)習者在潛意識里遵循一種遷移原則，即不遷移非典型性的母語(yǔ)形行研究;從對比分析法發(fā)展到認知法。目前,認知理論框架內的母語(yǔ)遷式和語(yǔ)義移研究仍然處于探索和發(fā)展階段，相關(guān)理論尚不成熟。但是，這種研究3.心理類(lèi)型對母語(yǔ)遷移的認知制約超越了純語(yǔ)言學(xué)研究的范疇，將認知和心理因素引人進(jìn)來(lái),這就為母語(yǔ)母語(yǔ)遷移也與母語(yǔ)和目的語(yǔ)間的距離有關(guān)。Elis指出,語(yǔ)言距離可遷移的進(jìn)一步研究提供了全新的視角。以視為是一種語(yǔ)言現象，即兩種語(yǔ)言間的實(shí)際差異程度;也可以視為是-種心理語(yǔ)言現象,即學(xué)習者自己認為母語(yǔ)與目的語(yǔ)間的差異程度,這參考文獻:就是Kellerman (1977)所稱(chēng)的“心理類(lèi)型"(psychotypology)[1 ]Eckman, F. 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I we can understand its basic operationrhetorical goal, it is usual to pensuade the audience to acept the rhetorician' 8 mechanism, use flexibly and then can certainly obtain satisfactory result. Theviewpoint. Comon belief, value and atinde are necessary.three kinds of persuasive strategies are closely interrelated. When one strategyIn some ads we can see the power of rhetorical sllogism. Because some is used, the other two are still in operation. Of course, rhetoricians will try theirthings ceannot be priced by money, we atach more attention to safety - -Auto- best to conceal their strategies. So audience should be alert to the possiblemobile Advertisement. It is self- evident that safety is more important thanmisleading intention and possess the ability to judge corretly.money. This is the common value shared by the rhetorician and the audience.Safely can' t be priced by money. So it is advisable that we atach more atte-Referencestion to safety. This is most people' s expectation for automobile. By the identi-[1 ]Rhctoric.Aristotle.Translated by W.Rhys Roberts.New York.Thefied value audience and the automobile set up a relation that shortened theModemn Iibrapdistance between audience and automobile. As a result, it is easier to achieve中國煤化工色[J]南昌教育學(xué)院學(xué)報，the aim of persuasion. Moreover, Freedorn, democracy, equality are the ap-2001(3)pealing ways that are often used.上HCNMHG育出版社2002.報/社會(huì )科In Marlboro Cigarette Advertisement west cowboy appeared to present4]打丈明，廠(chǎng)西價(jià)確研九小鄭川機工工業(yè)管理學(xué)院學(xué)the unconstrained and freedom. In Haier Electrical Household Appliance Ad-學(xué)版),2006(6).vertisement, the Haier brothers represent kinship and the utmost solicitude.[5]吳永異.廣告說(shuō)服中的西方修辭策略[].外語(yǔ)研究2006/11).4. Conclusion一158一