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Beauty Metaphors in Advertisements: An Ecological Discourse Analysis
Abstract
Skin whitening creams (SWCs) advertisements frequently manipulate beauty metaphors to frame the cognition of the masses for their sale promotion. This research aims to decode the link between the symbolic discourses of seven advertisements of SWCs and the exploitation of human feelings for commercialism. An ecological discourse analysis of the Grammatical Metaphor (GM) used in SWCs advertisements has been conducted. The study draws on Fairclough's perspective of CDA in the systemic functional linguistic framework of the stratal model (Martin,1993b; Halliday, 1985). The results demonstrate that Ideational and interpersonal GMs are deployed to impart information that seems to be neutral through nominalization, mood, and modality to justify the sociocultural divide of fair and not fair beauty norms for commercialism.
Authors
Ayesha Asghar Gill
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Ghazala Kausar
Assistant Professor, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan
Aziz Ullah Khan
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, KP, Pakistan
Keywords
Eco-Linguistics, Framing, Grammatical Metaphor, Ideology, Metaphor, Nominalization, Stratal Model
