Critical Genre Analysis: Contrastive Analysis Cigarette Advertisement in Indonesia and Us

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Critical Genre Analysis: Contrastive Analysis Cigarette Advertisement in Indonesia and US Rayditya B. Prima Department of English Language and Culture Faculty of Humanities and Culture Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang raditbmx@gmail.com 1. Abstract This mini research has argued that analysis and understanding of text and context is essential for an understanding of language use and communication in advertisement. Paltridge (2006) eight factors of written text which genre is exist used in making observations about the advertisement video. With these factors, developments in the advertisement can be linked up with developments in linguistic research and practice. The paper also has aimed to show the Systemic linguistics (Halliday, 1985) which are employed in Marlboro and Djarum advertisement. Halliday’s three major functions: an ideational or content-bearing function; an interpersonal function, which signals the writer’s attitude function; and a textual function,which enables the creation of the text appear in these advertisement as a strategies of companies to gain the attention of audiences. The expectations and norms of discourse communities or communities of practice (cultural and disciplinary), of course, may shape these situational expectations and practices (Connor, 2004). A very powerful depiction of cowboys in the past is considered excellent by the people in The US and make people interested and Marlboro advertising messages delivered through the media have great power to shape behavior, views or actions of the audience. And based on the theory of Modernism, Morris (2005), the mindset of Indonesian about the Western, inflence Djarum to make people interested in the advertisement by adding the Western elements (skydiving and sand-boarding) in their advertisement. Can be concluded that the genre is made up of something

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