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SOCIAL INTERACTION IN ADVERTISING TECHNICAL DISCOURSE

Authors :
Vera V. Boguslavskaya
Hongbo Yu
Source :
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 97-120 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2022.

Abstract

Background. In connection with the active interest of researchers in the problems of social interaction in the public communicative space, it is reasonable for the authors to refer to the advertising technical discourse, where the features of social communication are due to different types of target audience, i.e., specialists, business people and the mass audience. The purpose of the study is to identify and characterize the sociolinguistic features of advertising technical discourse, taking into account the social purposefulness and targeting of this type of discourse. Materials and methods. The empirical material was advertising booklets and ads in Yandex from 2018 to 2022. The sample size for the article was 140 texts of technical advertising. When analyzing the material, interpretive analysis, the method of content analysis were used. Results. The results of the study showed that technical advertising texts intended for specialists are characterized by the use of special terms. Those addressed to business people are characterized by the dominance of lexical units of economic subjects, the active use of attributive phrases, abbreviations in the field of economics and the international security standard. Technical advertising for a mass audience is distinguished by the use of evaluative words and expressions, various stylistic means. The analysis of social interaction in advertising technical discourse made it possible to identify the sociolinguistic specifics of advertising technical discourse by characterizing the language means used in advertising created for different types of recipients. Practical implications. The results of the study can be used in practical work by advertising specialists who promote technical and high-tech products on the market; in lecture courses on lexicology and advertising discourse, they can also be useful to scientists involved in research on technical and scientific and technical advertising.

Details

Language :
English, Russian
ISSN :
20771770 and 22187405
Volume :
14
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.06a7470128ec4b3db8f1937d51c1871b
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2022-14-1-97-120