Figures of Speech in Advertising English

1、figures of speech in advertising english 英语论文 figures of speech in advertising english 广告英语中的修辞格 abstract nowadays, we are endlessly bombarded with all kinds of advertisements through various media such as magazine, newspaper, tv, radio, poster and internet, etc. advertisements play more and more im

2、portant role, especially in import and export business. advertisement takes an important part in modern life, with its special magic power, prompting social and economic development. advertising english is mainly characterized by its originality, flexibility of language usage and the diversity of th

3、e forms. apart from the distinguishing features at lexical and syntactic levels, rhetorical vehicles, as decorative devices of language, are frequently employed in advertising english. the most frequently used figures of speech are: personification, simile, pun, parallelism and so on. the applicatio

4、n of these figures of speech can make products or services lively, interesting, visualized, and lifelike, also endow the advertising english with the beauty of rhythm and english language. personification makes products lively and lifelike; simile make products brilliant on their features; paralleli

5、sm makes language tone more strong. figures of speech can bring advertising a good effect and make readers impressive on both products and language if it's used properly. the pragmatic application of figures of speech in advertising is a frequently used strategy. from a fairly wide range of typi

6、cal advertisement data, we have made an attempt to analyze the deliberate application of several figures of speech in common. key words: figures of speech; advertising ; application 摘 要 当今，广告以多种媒体形式如杂志、报纸、电视、广播、海报、因特网等多种形式消失在我们日常生活中。尤其在商品进出口中，广告充当着越来越重要的角色。广告作为现代生活的重要组成部分有着独特魅力，它对社会经济的进展起着推动作用。广告英语的独特性在于其新奇、敏捷的语言及其形式的多样化，除了在词汇和句法方面别具一非常，修辞手法也被广泛地运用来润色广告语言。广告英语中频繁使用的修辞手法有：拟人、比方、双关、排比等。这些修辞格的运用能使英语广告中的产品或服务生动好玩、形象传神，同时给予广告语言美、音律美。例如：拟人使产品形象生动；比方使产品特点鲜亮；排比使语言增加语势。不管是对产品还是对语言本身，修辞格在广告英语