The Characteristics of Language in Cosmetic Advertisements

Abstract

Advertising plays a vital role in the development of society and economy. Its function can not be underestimated. Advertising language is a special applying language when it compares with others like literary and technological languages. It has become an indispensable part of daily life because of its particular characteristics. It makes a brief introduction into the definition, function of advertising at first in this paper. Then, it mainly summarizes and analyzes the linguistics characteristics of cosmetic advertisements at lexical, rhetorical levels and sentence structure. Through the analysis of cosmetic advertisements, the linguistic features of advertisements are summarized. It is important for people to understand the beauty of language in advertisements.