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LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS IN COSMOPOLITAN 

MAGAZINE’S ADVERTISEMENT 

 

 

Medyana Noor, Helena I.R Agustien, Rohani  
 

English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia  

 

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Article History: 

Received in October 

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Approved in November 

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Keywords: advertisement, 
stylistics, linguistic 
expression, context of 
situation, figures of speech, 
positive negative adjectives. 
  
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Abstract  
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This study aimed at describing the way the advertiser used the distinctive linguistic expressions in the 

Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Advertisement. Since the advertisement should attract the consumer as many as 

possible, the advertiser needed to have a plan to find a solution of this problem in conveying the messages 

through the advertisement. In this study, the discussion was limited by finding out distinctive linguistic 

expressions of the advertisement which can be used to convey meanings through text and image. This was 

a descriptive qualitative study. The analysis involved context of situation analysis, lexicogrammar 

analysis, and semantic analysis. The analysis revealed that in terms of context of situation, the advertiser 

delivered persuasive text. Therefore, the advertiser is obliged to say persuasive statements to persuade the 

consumer or buyer. Meanwhile, lexicogrammar analysis showed that the advertiser delivered the message 

of the product in order to inform the benefit and achieve the economic goal of the advertised product. The 

large parts of the clauses of the text were positive adjective which showed the good quality of the advertised 

product. The semantic analysis showed that personification was the most frequent figure of speech used in 

the advertisement text. In that sense, the advertiser wanted to give the inanimate object the quality of living 

thing. 

  
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INTRODUCTION 

Language is one of the valuable products of culture created by human beings. Human beings 

created a means by which they can exchange information as well as feelings. The needs to exchange 

information and feelings make people interact. This process of human interaction is called 

communication. 

The language of advertising is used to convey information from producer to consumer 

including advertisements. Advertisement is one example of mass communication that is a process in 

which a person or a group of people sends a message through a communication channel including 

television, radio, magazine, newspaper or social media to large group of people. The aim of 

advertisements is to enhance the visibility of the products and services among the consumer, to 

attract reader’s attention or to increase consumer’s awareness, affect the reader and persuade them 

to use and buy the product. 

This study investigates how the advertiser employs distinctive linguistic expressions in the 

advertisement of Cosmopolitan Magazine. The distinctive linguistic expressions here refer to the 

stylistic strategies used in the advertisement. According to Verdonk (2002:5) “stylistics the study of 

style, can be defined as the analysis of distinctive linguistic expressions in language and the 

description of its purpose and effect.” A linguistic expression can be referred to any physical form 

like sound, visual image or sequence thereof that is used to represent linguistics unit. A linguistic 

expression may be spoken or written. It is distinct from the actual process of speaking or writing that 

produce the expressions. Leech (1981:13) explained that ”stylistics, simply defines as the (linguistic) 

study of style, is rarely undertaken for its own sake, simply as an exercise in describing what use in 

made of language.” While Simpson (2004:2) states that “the definition of stylistics is a method of 

textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to language.” 

Stylistic analysis is a normal part of linguistics and literary studies. Stylistic refers to the 

identification of patterns of usage in spoken or written. In linguistics, the purpose of a close analysis 

is to identify and classify the element of language being used. In literary studies, the purpose is 

usually an adjunct to understanding, and interpretation. In both cases, it is practiced as a part of 

understanding the possible meanings in a text. Generally, Stylistic analysis is concerned with the 

typical of a text in the use of language in text for delivering message in particular. It is also assumed 

that the process of stylistic analysis will reveal the good quality of the text.  

With the development of globalization and industrialization, goods are produced day by day. 

As a result, advertisement plays an important role in selling product. The language being used in the 

advertisement varies which can affect on persuading consumer to buy the product. It also forms its 

special style and language used in the advertisement differs from other styles because it presents 

persuasive power. Magazine is one of the most effective way of providing information. The 

advertisement on it can achieve good effect since it provides with colourful image and catchy phrase 

or clauses in the text in order to attract readers’ attention as many as possible and arouse readers’ 

desire to purchase the product.  

In establishing what kinds of distinctive linguistic features which are employed by the 

advertiser, firstly the text should be well written. In this case, the advertisement text from 

Cosmoplitan Magazine United States Edition 2014 issue is taken as sample of  written text. It is an 

opinion, thought, ideas about products or services which is made by the advertiser. Trappes and 

Lomax in Davis and Elder (2004:149) also add that “text is both something produced by interactants 

in the process of making discourse and something consumed by linguists in the process of making 

analyses.” Therefore, discourse analysis is used as a tool for understanding authentic spoken and 

written interaction. “A contextual configuration is a specific set of values that realises field, tenor or 

mode” (Halliday and Hasan, 1985:55). Context of situation is a useful term to cover the things going 



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on in the world outside the text which make the text what it is. There are three variables within any 

context of situation which largely determine the language choices that are made in the construction 

of any language text. These variables function together and are responsible for the configuration of 

language features found in any text. 

At this level of analysis the lexicogrammar related such as vocabulary, adjectives, tenses 

would be discussed. In the study, printed advertisement is the most visual aspect of the illustration. 

Rather than abstract, concrete or everyday vocabulary represents lexical means used in printed 

advertisement. Vocabulary is the means for advertisers to express their opinion about the product. In 

the fields of advertising, adjectives are considerably represented word class as they convey a positive 

or negative meaning. “Adjectives are pertinent in advertising as they convey a positive or negative 

affective meaning” (Delin 2000:133). Its function is to describe spesific quality and feature of the 

product. What tense used in the advertisement is discussed in the Finite analysis. It is used in order 

to find out what tense that is frequently used in the print advertisement and why it tends to use that 

tense. The present tense is commonly used in the advertisements. The use of present tense might 

indicate how good the quality of a product is, whether or not it has long lasting effect. At the same 

time, it makes the advertisement easy to understand. 

At semantic  level of analysis, Figure of speech or figurative language and other rhetorical 

device are discussed. They frequently appear in the text of advertisement because they play major 

role in the advertising since it makes playful, unique and nicely interconnected text of advertisement. 

There are so many kinds of figure of speech and rhetorial device, but only several that will be 

classified into this analysis including personification, simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and other 

rhetorical device like repetition, alliteration, assonance, question and also general technique. Keraf 

(2009), Leech (1972), Leech (1981) and Myers (1997) point out a number of language and rhetorical 

devices typical for advertising, one of each is the semantic level that includes figures of speech, 

rhetorical device, sound technique, etc.  

METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH  

The data of this research was analyzed using descriptive qualitative method. It was descriptive 

because the data collected from analyzing the distinctive linguistic expressions in the advertisement 

of Cosmopolitan Magazine. The analysis would be divided into 3 units of analysis, there were 

discourse analysis, lexicogrammar analysis and semantic analysis. Discourse analysis would cover 

the element of context of situation of the advertisement. It covered the whole text and the image of 

the advertisement. Lexicogrammar analysis included the finite analysis and the adjective analysis, 

why it tends to use either positive or negative adjectives. While Semantic analysis included figures of 

speech and other rhetorical device. 

The qualitative method was applied in this study because all of the data in this study were in 

the form of words. Cresswell (1994:145) states that “Qualitative research is descriptive in that the 

researcher is interested in process, meaning, and understanding gained through word or picture”. 

However, when used along with quantitative methods, qualitative research can help us to interpret 

and better understand the implications of quantitative data. The quantity of the data is a mean to 

enhance the qualitative analysis in the study. Interpretation is mainly used to analyse the 

quantitative data and also needed to describe the qualitative framework of analysis in the study. The 

researcher needed to demonstrate that the research used clear logic and provided strong evidence to 

substantiate the claims that had been made to analyse and interpret the data. 

 The followings are the details of steps of analyzing the data in details: 

(1) Collecting the printed advertisement from Cosmopolitan Magazine United States edition from 

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(2) Examining the advertisement that is matched with one condition. The advertisement must 
contain of elements of advertisement, which are headline, body copy and slogan. 

(3) Reading the advertisement. 

(4) Analysing the text of printed advertisements 

In the process of analysing the text, the writer has divided the text of printed advertisements 

into three parts, which are into headline, body copy and slogan. The linguistic expressions or 

stylistic strategy includes the process of analysing context of situation, style markers: lexicogrammar, 

and semantic aspects. In order to make it easy to understand, each element has its table of data. On 

this part, the writer uses quantitative approach to support the qualitative analysis data.  

(5) Presenting and discussing the result of the analysis 

After analysing the text, the result is presented in the table. Based on this identification, later 

on the writer would interpret the result of each unit of analysis into words in the discussion part. The 

writer discusses the result of analysis by reviewing all text on each printed advertisements that have 

been analysed. The review is conducted by conveying the distinctive linguistics expression realized 

in the printed advertisements.  

RESULT AND DISCUSSION 

The results of the analysing the distinctive linguistic expression in Cosmopolitan Magazine’s 

advertisement are divided into two parts. Those are overall analysis and analysis results of each style 

markers. 

Overall Results 

The distinctive linguistic expressions were analyzed by the researcher and the first run of the 

analysis was performed in order to know the register of the advertisement which was context of 

situation analysis. It was important that context of situaton be discussed before going further to 

analyse text because the context of situation determined how the resource of language system would 

be used by the advertiser in employing distinctive linguistics expressions on the advertisement to 

communicate with the reader. The three variables within any context of situation which are field, 

tenor and mode were being analysed. The context of situation of advertisements of Cosmopolitan 

Magazine were concluded in the overall result because they shared mostly the same of functions and 

purposes. From the field point of view, it could be concluded that the texts were about the idea and 

messages of the advertised product to gain interest and persuade the reader to purchase the product 

in order to reach economic goal of the company of advertised product. In terms of Tenor, the 

advertiser and the reader or the consumer are involved. The advertisement built a casual or informal 

(minimum range) with the reader or consumer. The relationship between the advertiser and the 

reader was temporary relationship. From Mode point of view,  the language in these context are the 

central element (constitutive). The medium of the text was written and also used written mode to 

deliver the content.   

After loooking at the field, tenor and mode, we then discussed how these affect the choice of 

language in the text. In studying the intention of the advertiser in the text through the implication of 

context of situation or register, also studying about how the advertiser made meaning using the 

figures of speech and positive or negative adjectives. The findings of lexicogrammar analysis were 

divided into two main parts of analysis. The first was Grammar Analysis, which consist of Finite 

Analysis and the second was Lexical Analysis, which included positive or negative adjectives 

analysis. While semantic included figure of speech analysis. Finite is the essential constituent in a 

clause or sentence. Finite in the clause functions to make sure the intention of something will be 



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done by the subject. The most frequent of finite used in the advertisement text was present tense, 

followed by past tense and modals. The advertiser tended to convey the goal of the advertised 

product through the choice of words. Moreover, by using present tense, it also expressed the 

advertiser’s expectation and hope to make the consumers deserve what they want by providing more 

benefit and best result of the product. Past tense in the clause gave those words the ability to sound 

as if it was done in the past. Modal in the clauses gave those words the ability to sound as if it was 

done in the future. 

Vocabulary is the means for advertisements to express ideas or opinions about product, 

service or event. Reader’s positive or negative evaluation of an advertised product or service would 

be displayed by the affective meaning. The advertisement in this study contained adjectives with 

both positive and negative meaning or connotations. Positive adjectives were mostly used in the 

advertisement text, followed by small parts of negative adjectives. Using positive adjective expressed 

the good or positive qualities of the product. However, that words were often used subjectively 

depending on what was being described. 

The last interpretation in this study was the semantic analysis. Semantic analysis focused on 

analyzing figures of speech and other rhetorical device. The result of the analysis showed various 

figures of speech employed in the advertisement text by the advertiser. Figures of speech found in 

the sample of advertisement such as personification, hyperbole, alliteration, repetition, simile, 

rhetoric question and also general technique. The advertiser often used personification to describe 

how the product worked and functioned. Hyperbole was used to exaggerate the benefit of the 

product or what the product could do or how it gave a result after using its product. The repetition 

was used as attention catcher because it was easily remembered. Simile was used to compare two 

different things or showed similarities between them. Rhetoric question was used to attract the 

reader even it did not require a real answer. The figure of speech was often used to give different vibe 

in the text. Since it was playful and attractive which could gain target reader’s attention to read or to 

purchase the advertised product. 

 

a) Analysis Result of Style Marker 

(1) Finite Analysis 

(i) Present Tense 

1. Love the skin you’re in. 

In this clause it can be referred that the advetiser expresses the feeling. To love the oportunity 

for having nice and good skin.  

2. It’s brilliant even for sensitive skin. 

It shows that the product is suitable not only for normal skin but also for sensitive skin. The 

advertiser wants to convince those with sensitive skin who are afraid of using certain product 

to try this product without feeling worried that their skin becomes worse.  

3. Hair looks thicker wash after wash. 

In this clause, it indicates that using the shampoo will make the hair looks thicker if one’s uses 

it continually. It gives volume to the hair because the hair becomes thicker.  

4. Because you’re worth it. 

In this clause, the advertiser certainly confident to reach the consumers’ expectation. By using 

the word “worth”, it seems that the advertiser again wants to convince the consumer to 



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purchase the product. Since the product is worth buying and worth using and it has more 

benefit. 

In conclusion, from Present Tense poin of view, the advertiser tends to convey the goal of the 

advertised product throught the choice of words. Moreover, by using present tense, it also expresses 

the advertiser’s expectation and hope to make the consumers deserve what they want by providing 

more benefit and best result of the product. The finding also indicates that the advertiser explicitly 

gives an offer to the consumer about the product’s appeal. What the advertiser shared is the 

condition that the advertised product wants to reveal. 

(ii) Past Tense 

1. In our study, 80% agreed their skin has never looked so beautiful. 

2. Formulated to reveal your skin’s radiance instantly and naturallly. 

3. Enriched with exquisite argan and indulgent camellia oils. 

4. The how, glazed pearls in shea butter glide. 

As we can see from the examples of the clauses above, the verbs found in the advertisement 

text that indicate past tense such as agreed, formulated, enriched, glazed. Past tense in the clause 

give those words the ability to sound as if it is done in the past. The effect of using past tense is to tell 

the target reader or the consumer that something already happened. Besides, using the choice of 

words indicates that the advertiser is certain about what he was saying and without doubt at all. It 

makes the advertisement text sounds more persuasive. It is intended to convince the targer reader or 

the consumer to choose and purchase the advertised product. 

(iii) Modal 

1. For visibly reduced pores that can lock up to half their size. 

2. So you can always shine strong. 

3. I will never let a dark spot steal my spotlight. 

4. I will not let age change me. 

5. I will change the way I age. 

As we can see from the examples of the clauses above, the verbs found in the speech that 

indicate modal verb such as will and can. Modal in the clauses give those words the ability to sound 

as if it is done in the future. It is a type of verb that is used to indicate modality- that is ability, 

permission, and obligation. Thus, the effect of using modal is to tell the target reader or the 

consumer that is something will happen. Besides, by using the choice of words indicates that the 

advertiser gives possible result of using the advertised product. 

(2) Adjectives Analysis 

(i) Positive Adjective 

1. A lightweight moisturising lotion enriched with 4 beautifying oils. 

2. Brighten up your skin naturally with new simple iluminating cream. 

3. Hair looks & feels thicker with luxurious body and bounce. 

4. See bright,pearlescent,healthy-looking in just 2 weeks. 

From the clauses above, we can spot the words “lightweight”, “simple”, “thicker”, 

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Those adjectives that were used in the advertisement were mostly positive. The positive adjectives 

here, remarked that the quality of the product is good. The advertiser wanted to emphasize the good 

quality product to inform the reader.  

(ii) Negative Adjective 

1. No harsh chemicals that can upset your skin. 

2. Sensitive skin experts. 

3. Go for dull-beam gleam. 

4. I will never let a dark spot steal my spotlight. 

From the clauses above, the words “harsh”, “upset”, “sensitive”, “dull”, and “dark” were 

classified into the negative adjectives. Those words represented the antonym of good quality of the 

product. Usually the negative adjectives used to compare before-after using the product or the effect 

of something before using the product.  

 

(3) Semantic Analysis 

(i) Personification 

Personification refers to a thing as having human qualities or ability. In other words, it is a 

way of giving an inanimate object the qualities of living thing. This can sometimes be used to invoke 

an emotional response to something by making it more personable, friendly, and relatable. 

1. Fight 7 signs of aging over time while providing instant coverage for flawlessly beautiful skin. 

In this clause, the one that fights 7 signs of aging over time is a cream. While we know that a 

cream is an object that is imppossible to do an action like fighting. The word “fight” is 

personifed to explain something that a skincare could do to the skin like to make the skin 

looks beautiful and flawless.  

2. Seriously seductive shine. 

“Seductive” is a personified word that is used to illustrate how the shine is shining. Seductive 

is a quality of living things that can make the inanimate object sounds lively. 

3. My shine shampoo and conditioner with argan oil will take a shine to your hair like you wouldn’t 

believe. 

This clause is classified into personification because the word “take” that is the quality of 

living thing is personified.  

4. I will never let a dark spot steal my spotlight. 

“Steal” here indicate the quality of living thing since an object can take action like a living 

things. 

As we can see from the examples of the clauses above, the words found in the advertisement 

text that indicate personification such as fight, glowing, seductive, take, change, glisten. As mention 

before, advertisement can often use personification when inanimate objects or abstractions are given 

with human qualities to make it more dramatic, interesting, and more attractive because we can 

better relate to the objects which are personified or sometimes it can be reverse.  

 

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Hyperbole refers to a word or a phrase that is being exaggerated to emphasize. This figure of 

speech makes things seem much exaggerated than it really were by using astonished illustration of 

everyday things. It is often seen as an exaggeration that adds a bit of humor to a phrase, clause, 

sentence or even story.  

1. It is brilliant even for sensitive skin! 

In the clasue above the word “brilliant” is used to exaggerate meaning to add emphasize of 

how good the product for the people who has sensitive skin. 

2. It is perfect even for sensitive skin. 

The word “brilliant” is an exaggerated action to emphasize how good the advertised product 

works for sensitive skin.  

3. The marvellous transformer. 

“Marvellous” is obviously an exaggerated word to emphasize how good the transformer is. 

4. Be extraordinary. 

The word oxtraordinary here exaggerated from being ordinary. 

5. Your best beautiful. 

In this clasue we find the word “best”. The word definitely indicates as exaggerated word 

because it emphasizes the beauty of one’s.  

In conclusion, from the examples of the clauses above, the words found in the advertisement 

text that indicate hyperbole such as brilliant, perfect, marvellous, lasts, so much more. Hyperbole in 

the clauses give those words the ability of exaggerating things, to make it sounds like even more than 

it were. Advertisement can often use hyperbole when objects or things are given exaggerating action 

or feeling to make it bigger or uncommon situation than usual. Therefore, a hyperbole is an unreal 

exaggeration to emphasize the real situation. By using hyperbole, a writer makes common human 

feelings remarkable and intense to such extent that they do not remain ordinary. 

(iii) Alliteration 

Alliteration refers to the repetition of a sound in the first syllable words or phrases. It is a very 

common figures of speech that involves using words that begin with the same sound. It is often used 

in advertising slogans to create something catchy that more people will remember. 

1. Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maybelline. 

In the clause above we can see alliteration “may” in the word may be and maybelline. 

2. Get dramatic results...without drastic measures. 

We can see alliteration word “dra” in the word dramatic and drastic. 

3. Anti Aging + Beauty Balm = Color and Correction 

In the clasue above the alliteration is “A”, “B”, and “C” in the words anti aging, beauty balm, 

and color and correction. 

4. Bye, bye, breakouts. 

We can see alliteration “B” in the word bye and breakouts. 

As we can see from the examples of the clauses above, the words found in the advertisement 

text that indicate alliteration such as maybe and maybelline, dramatic and drastic, anti aging, beauty 

balm, color and correction, bye and breakout. An important point to remember here is that 



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alliteration does not depend on letters but on sounds. It also makes the words catchy and easy to 

memorize.  

(iv) Repetition 

Repetition refers to a repeating of a word within a sentence with no particular placement of 

the words in order to emphasize. It is such a common literary device that is almost never even noted 

as a figure of speech but more as a rhetorical device. 

1. Hair looks thicker wash after wash. 

The clause above used “wash” to emphasize its point of continuity. If you wash your hair 

continually, your hair will look thicker. 

2. Biore deep cleansing pore strips + pore unclogging scrub. 

As we can see above, there is repetition on word “pore” to emphasize or to focus just in pore 

area. 

3. Protect it. Sleek it. Own it. 

The clause above used the word “it” that refers to the hair. It emphasizes that it needs to be 

protected, sleeked, and owned. 

In conclusion from the examples of the clauses above, the words found in the advertisement 

text such as wash, pore, it. Repetition in the clauses make an idea clearer because it repeats the same 

words or phrases a few times. It has the ability of making simple sentence sounds like a dramatic 

one. It enhances the beauty of a phrase or a sentence and stresses on the point of main significance. 

It often uses word associations to express the ideas and emotions in indirect manner. 

(v) Other Rhetorical Device 

Other rhetorical devices that include in this study are simile, metonymy, metaphor, ellipsis 

and also rhetorical question. We can take a look at the clauses below: 

1. Beautifies like an oil, moisturises like a lotion. 

The clause above is classified into Simile. In this figure of speech, two things are compared 

that are not really the same, but are used to make a point about each other. The comparartion 

in the simile uses the words “like” or “as”. In the clause above, compared between beautifies 

and oil, moisturises and a lotion by using the word “like”. 

2. In our study, 80% agreed their skin has never looked so beautiful. 

In this clause we can see “80% agreed” that is classified into metonymy. Not to be confused 

with personification, because “80%” here represents the woman who undergoes a series of 

dermatological test from the advertised product.  

3. What goes with everything? 

This clause is classified into rhetorical question. Rhetorical question refers to a form of 

question without a need of a reply, it is just for persuasion. It is also to make the idea a point 

more prominent. It is often used to capture consumer’s attention. 

4. Get dramatic result...without drastic measures. 

This clause is classified into ellipsis, since it is obviously use “...”. it is an omission of the 

word in a phrase or a sentence. 



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5. How smooth are you? 

In this clause, we can see a question mark that indicates it is a rhetorical question. As 

mentioned before, rhetorical question is asked for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed. 

It does not need a real answer. It is used for style as an impressive persuasive device. 

CONCLUSIONS 

This study investigated how the advertiser employed distinctive linguistic expressions in the 

advertisement of Cosmopolitan Magazine. The advertisements varied from make-up product, skin 

care product, hair product, etc. After analyzing data in the previous chapter, the writer delivered 

several conclusions which answered the problems stated before. The answers to the research 

problems of this study presented as follows. 

From Context of Situation point of view. The advertisement was kind of persuasive text, 

because through the text the advertiser tried to persuade the reader to purchase their money in the 

product. The information shared was mostly about the specification and the benefit of the product.  

From the Lexicogrammar point of view, in conclusion, from Present Tense point of view, the 

advertiser tends to convey the goal of the advertised product through the choice of words. Moreover, 

by using present tense, it also expresses the advertiser’s expectation and hopes to make the consumer 

deserve what they want by providing more benefit and best result of the product. On the other hand, 

Past tense in the clause gives those words the ability to sound as if it was done in the past. The effect 

of using past tense was to tell the target reader or the consumer that something already happened. 

Besides, using the choice of words indicated that the advertiser certain about what he was saying 

and without doubt at all. It made the advertisement text sounded more persuasive. While Modal in 

the clauses give those words the ability to sound as if it is done in the future. It was a type of verb 

that was used to indicate modality- that is ability, permission, and obligation. Thus, the effect of 

using modal is to tell the target reader or the consumer that something will happen. Besides, by 

using the choice of words indicates that the advertiser gives possible result of using the advertised 

product. Reader’s positive or negative evaluation of an advertised product or service will be 

displayed by the affective meaning. The advertisement in this study contained adjectives with either 

positive and negative meaning or connotations. The result of adjective analysis can be seen as 

follows: 

Semantic analysis focused on analysing figures of speech and other rhetorical devices. The 

advertiser often used general technique to describe the product what the product is, what the benefit 

of the product is. The figures of speech is often used to give different vibe in the text. Since it’s 

playful and interesting that can gain target reader’s attention to read or to buy the advertised 

product. 

The advertiser used media which provided the documentation that drew attention from the 

reader that helped him to convey the message of the advertised product. The advertiser used both 

text and image that showed the typical of the product. It is an effective strategy to express ideas, 

thought or perceptions about the advertised product. He tried to persuade and to influence as many 

buyer as possible to purchase it. He also delivered persuasive text to the reader. He delivered his 

statement by following several steps in order to systematically build persuasive text. He gained 

attention from the headline of the advertisement, then described the benefit or the way to use the 

product and gave the product’s typical slogan. 

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