PRASASTI: Journal of Linguistics
Vol 6, No 1 (2021)

LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION IN ONLINE MARKETING OF COSMETIC PRODUCTS: A GLANCE OF NETNOGRAPHY IN PRAGMATICS

Lina Septianasari (STKIP Muhammadiyah Bogor)
Yasmika Baihaqi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro)
Fourus Huznatul Abqoriyyah (Universitas Al-Ghifari)
Wuri Syaputri (Universitas Muhammadiyah Pringsewu)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Apr 2021

Abstract

Online marketing was extensively chosen as the most efficient option to shop during Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the prompt expansion of the digital era, a seller should be creative in using language to persuade buyers. This research aimed to investigate the use of speech acts and persuasion by cosmetics marketers in social commerce to persuade online shoppers. This descriptive research used netnography with pragmatics approach to answering the research questions. Data were collected from Facebook and Instagram by using manual netnography techniques which then scraped into excel as the corpus. After that, the data were analyzed by using the taxonomy of speech acts and persuasion categories. The results show that the use of directive speech acts dominates the persuasion in online marketing of cosmetic products. However, the various type of speech acts and persuasion were used by the online cosmetic sellers as a strategy to promote their products.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

pjl

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics (PJL) is devoted to the problems of general linguistics. Its aim is to present work of current interest in all areas of linguistics. Contributions are required to contain such general theoretical implications as to be of interest to any linguist, whatever their ...