MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY M. THESIS BEVERAGE ADVERTISEMENTS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (Quảng cáo đồ uống trong tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt) NGUYEN ANH THU Field: English Language Code: 8.01 Hanoi - 2022 i MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY M. THESIS BEVERAGE ADVERTISEMENTS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (Quảng cáo đồ uống trong tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt) NGUYEN ANH THU Field: English Language Code: 8. Ho Ngoc Trung Hanoi - 2022 ii CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I, the undersigned, hereby certify my authority of the study project report entitled “BEVERAGE ADVERTISEMENTS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE” submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in the English Language.
Except where the reference is indicated, no other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgment in the text of the thesis. Hanoi, 2022 Nguyen Anh Thu Approved by SUPERVISOR (Signature and full name) Date:…………………… i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis could not have been completed without the help and support of a number of people. First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Assoc. Ho Ngoc Trung, my supervisor, has patiently and constantly supported me through the stages of the study, and whose stimulating ideas, expertise, and suggestions have inspired me greatly through my growth as an academic researcher.
My special thanks also go to all the lecturers in the Faculty of English, Ha Noi Open University for their very useful and interesting lectures which have laid the foundation for my thesis. A special word of thanks goes to all of my lecturers at Hanoi Open University and many others, without whose support and encouragement it would never have been possible for me to have this thesis accomplished. Next, my thanks also go to all my classmates who made great contributions to my research. Without their assistance and participation, this study would not have been successful.
Last but not least, I am deeply grateful to my beloved parents for the love and support which have enabled me to overcome all the challenges during my study. ii ABSTRACT This study aims at conducting a study of advertisements for beverage products in English and Vietnamese equivalents. This thesis mainly focuses on analyzing the lexical, textual and stylistic features of beverage advertisements. The data for analysis in this thesis are collected from many different sources such as television, websites of companies manufacturing beverage products.
The deductive method, inductive method, qualitative method, quantitative method, and descriptive method. The findings of the study help to find out some similarities and differences in using lexical, textual and stylistic between English and Vietnamese samples. This thesis hopefully contributes to the general understanding of the notion of “beverage” and the language of advertising. Moreover, learners, teachers, and especially the copyrighters may benefit from this study to create an advertisement for beverage products when comprehensively understanding the roles of lexical cohesive devices in the discourse of beverage advertisements.
iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. Aims and objectives of the study. Methods of the study. Scope of the study.
Significance of the study. Structure of the study. 5 Chapter 2: LITERATURE REVIEW. Discourse and discourse analysis.
General view of Advertising. 29 Chapter 3: LEXICAL, TEXTUAL AND STYLISTIC FEATURES BETWEEN IN ENGLISH AND IN VIETNAMESE. Lexical features of English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements. Using personal pronouns.
Textual features of English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements. Lexical cohesion in beverage advertisements between English and Vietnamese. Stylistic features of English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements .Simile in English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements. Metaphor in English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements.
Repetition in English and Vietnamese Beverage Advertisements. Repetition of Sounds. Repetition of Words. Repetition of Phrase Structures.
Implication to the Language Teaching and Learning. Implication to the Language Teaching. Implication to the Language Learning. Implication to the Customers and Consumers.
Limitation of the research. Recommendations/Suggestions for further research. 64 v LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Types of cohesion.
Grammatical and Lexical cohesion. Verbs in English and Vietnamese advertisements for. Personal Pronouns in English and Vietnamese advertisements for beverage products. Frequency of Occurrence of Repetition in English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements.
Frequency of Occurrence of Stylistic devices in English advertisements for beverage products. Frequency of Occurrence of Stylistic devices in Vietnamese beverage advertisements. 55 vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Language is the most powerful weapon in communication.
It is termed the magic in communication and is thought to contain special powers, which only the initiated are allowed to understand or control. It is expressed in varied styles in various disciplines. Advertising is one of the disciplines where the use of language has to be employed with care in order to deliver the message effectively and efficiently. According to David Crystal, language is the systematic, conventional use of sound, signs or written symbols in human society for communication and self-expression.
One can then bridge the great link between language and advertising since according to Leo Burnette, the aim of advertising is to draw attention to products or services in order to make them sell. Crystal also thinks that, most obviously, the language is generally laudatory, positive unreserved, and emphasizes the uniqueness of a product. An advertisement may not attain the goals of selling goods, services or ideas, not only because the target audience was not exposed to the advertisement, but also because the language used in the advertisements did not suffice to grab the attention of the audience, captivate their interest, create a desire and move them to action. It could as well be that, the message was not understood and conveyed a different meaning to the target population.
Hence the improper use of language will cause the advertisement not to serve the purpose intended. Therefore, the language of advertising needs careful investigation and generalization. Along with the development of society, advertising has been proving its increasingly important role. It is hard to imagine how modern society goes on without advertising.
It has been familiar to us since a long, long time ago. It has become a close friend of everybody and every family. Everywhere and every time we go out, we can see advertising. Whether we are shopping, reading newspapers or magazines, traveling to work, watching television, or simply lazing around, we cannot avoid seeing advertisements probably, if we bother to count, several hundred every day.
They come in an extraordinary range of forms and contexts. In fact, advertising has become a part of our everyday life and is an indispensable component of all sorts of business. Commenting on the indispensability of advertising in a business, Stewart H Britt states in a higher vein 1 “Doing business without advertising is like winking a girl in the dark; you know what you are doing, but nobody else does”. Moreover, advertising is an art.
It is the art of persuading. It is designed not only to capture everyone’s attention and provide information about goods but also helps to promote economic growth and provide “a colorful, diverting aspect of life”. Advertising has become a specialized activity. It is deeply rooted in daily activities and closely follows our steps.
Besides, advertising is a device to arouse consumers’ attention to a commodity and induce them to use it. In the increasingly keen competition of the market economy, advertising is an important means of scrambling for markets. As a special practical style, it has its own features in the creative design or in the use of words. Industrialized people cannot lead a good life without useful advice from advertising.
Advertising assists them in satisfying their wants by informing the benefits of goods and offering knowledge and understanding of their environment. Advertising shows us what goods we can buy and where to them buy, how to rationalize labor to lighten the burdens of housework, what food we should eat and what medicines we should take for being healthy, etc. As far as we know, advertising nowadays not only spurs economic development, engineers sales, helps people and organizations find each other, creates and sustains thousands of jobs - in advertising agencies, in various promotion and exhibition industries but also gives the public the right to choose between many options, many brands. It enables consumers to opt for the best quality or the lowest price or the best mix of quality and price.
Although advertising appears in many different forms and means, it basically uses language as a means to draw customers’ attention and supply listeners, readers, or viewers with necessary information about new products and services. Advertising is also a good guide and good educator for cultural needs, a source of information and stimulus for new achievements and progress in every field. In the production field, advertising can ensure a certain number of buyers so that manufacturers can manage their production accurately and effectively. In addition, advertising efficiently supports the development of other industries such as journalism, television… Every time an advertisement arouses a consumer’s interest enough to result in a purchase, it keeps a company going strong.
And it helps secure 2 the job of the people who work there. And when advertising does its job, millions of people keep theirs. Therefore, advertising is very important and has become indispensable in our modern life. It can be said that the economy of any country would take a downturn without advertising.
Advertising brings benefits to not only manufacturers but also consumers. Through advertisements, manufacturers can effectively attract people’s attention to their products. As a result, they will sell more products. Besides that, advertising is useful to consumers.
Thanks to advertisements, consumers get information about products and services. They know about the characteristics, and benefits of each product or service in order to make a good choice. Advertising in the field of beverages is not an exception. Beverage advertisements are quite popular in all means of media.
Actually, beverage advertisers bring products to customers in different ways which depend mostly on who the customers are. In other words, they design different advertisements of the same product to target different groups of viewers, namely men and women. Good advertisements for beverage products must first grab the attention of the audience, captivate their interest by describing the merits of products, create a desire to possess as a good opportunity and finally move them to the action of purchasing the products. In order to achieve the purpose of advertising, advertisers for beverage products must pay attention to such features as lexis, text and stylistics.
Through advertisements for beverage products, we find out the strategies and techniques through the use of lexis, and stylistics that are expected to be beneficial. In addition, it is noticeable that many study of advertising discourse have focused on the language used in advertisements. However, none has been done to beverage product advertisement and its linguistic features. For the above reasons, it is necessary to do research on lexical, textual and stylistic features of beverage product advertisements in English and their Vietnamese equivalents.
I hope that the study will provide some useful knowledge of advertising language in the field of beverage products for using English of Vietnamese teachers and learners of English in as well as for those who are interested in advertising, especially advertising of beverage products. Aims and objectives of the study Through researching, comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between beverage advertising written in English and Vietnamese, the 3 topic will propose some ideas for those working in the advertising industry report and give some suggestions ideas for teaching and learning. For this reason, the study is intended to fulfill the following objectives: - Analyzing lexical, textual, and stylistic features of English and Vietnamese beverage advertisements; - Comparing and contrasting these features between the two languages to find out similarities and differences.What are the lexical, textual and stylistic features of beverage advertisements in English and Vietnamese? 2.