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Linguistic strategies used in women’s cosmetics advertisements in Korean and Japanese magazines

  • 日本硏究
  • 2024, (61), pp.71-87
  • DOI : 10.20404/jscau.2024.08.61.71
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 11, 2024
  • Accepted : July 27, 2024
  • Published : August 20, 2024

Lee Eun Mi 1

1명지대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, I examined the linguistic strategies used in cosmetics advertisements in Korean and Japanese women’s magazines with a focus on sentence -final types. I observed both sentence-final speech levels and forms. The results are summarized briefly as follows. First, the use of sentence-final speech levels shows that both Korean and Japanese advertisements predominantly use incomplete utterances. This suggests that advertisements prioritize the one-way communication of thoughts or facts rather than consideration for or interaction with readers. Additionally, regarding incomplete utterances, nominal forms are the most frequently used in both countries, implying that they convey advertisement content concisely and clearly as an effective linguistic form for capturing reader interest and attention. Furthermore, among the forms of incomplete utterances, the use of case markers or particles is relatively higher in Japanese than in Korean magazines, indicating that incomplete utterances in Japanese are employed in a more diverse range of forms. Next, regarding the use of sentence-final forms, declarative forms are overwhelmingly used in both Korean and Japanese magazines. However, compared with Korean magazines, Japanese magazines demonstrate a greater variety in conveying advertising intentions through various forms. In the future, I intend to conduct a thorough examination of linguistic strategies from various perspectives, including vocabulary and rhetoric.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.