A Study of english words, phrases, sentences and attracting speech acts appearing in the headlines of the herbal beverage advertising home pages on the internet
Abstract:
The purpose of the research was to analyze the use of English words, phrases, sentences and attracting speech acts appearing in the headlines of the herbal beverage homepages on the internet. The sample used in the study consisted of static 396 headlines of herbal beverage advertising homepages available online at www.aol.com in August, 2000. The criteria used for analyzing the English words, phrases, sentences and attracting speech acts were based on the principles of advertising language and previous studies of English language used in advertising. The results were presented in terms of analytical descriptin and percentage.The findings indicated that : 1) The most frequently used English words were emotive words (57%), repetition of words (47%), association (9%), and other techniques ranging from 0.25-7%; 2) the most frequently used English phrases were noun phrase indicating URL (24%), noun phrase indicating product type (12%), noun phrase indicating trade mark (8%) and other techniques ranging from 0.25-7%; 3) the most frequently used English sentence structures were greeting-expression (11%), imperative sentence (8%), simple sentence (6%) and other techniques ranging from 0.5-4%; 4) the most frequently used speech acts were expressive speech acts (12%), directive speech acts (10%), representative speech acts (5%) and other techniques ranging from 0.77-4%.