Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol 4, No 2 (2016)

PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES USED BY AGUNG SEDAYU GROUP IN THE INFOMERCIAL, METRO TV

Iqbal Firmansyah (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Esther H Kuntjara (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
18 Jul 2017

Abstract

This study is conducted to find out the types of persuasive strategies which were used in Agung Sedayu Group’s infomercial.  It is aimed to seek the types of persuasive strategies used by the hosts and the representative team of Agung Sedayu Group in the infomercial. The writer uses the theories of persuasive strategies by Beebe (2012). The types of persuasive strategies theories are enhancing your credibility, using logic and evidence, and using emotion to persuade. In addition, the writer uses theory of social factor by Holmes (2001) as the supporting theory. This research uses qualitative supported by quantitative methods to reveal which strategy that mostly used by the participants. In the analysis, the writer found out that the most dominant persuasive strategy used by the hosts is using emotion to persuade 161 (31.8%). Moreover, the most dominant persuasive strategy used by the representative team is enhancing your credibility 113 (22.3%). 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...