Lexicogrammatic aspects in mcdonald’s happy day advertisements
a systemic-functional approach
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https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v19i1.34969Keywords:
SFL, Language metafunctions, AdvertisementsAbstract
Language is a communication system that allows human beings to express ideas, emotions, thoughts and information. Thus, it is essential to understand how people interact, how languages evolve and how they affect society and culture. With this in mind, this article aims to analyze how the metafunctions, or functions, of language, namely, ideational, interpersonal and textual, contribute to the construction of meanings in advertisements for McDonald’s Happy Day. To this end, the theoretical assumptions of Systemic Functional Linguistics – SFL, supported by Halliday (1994) and Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), are used. Methodologically, this work is descriptive-analytical in nature and its approach is qualitative. To constitute the corpus, two advertisements published on Méqui's Instagram (@mcdonalds_br) were selected, and the choice to analyze this advertisement from the systemic perspective of language is mainly due to the fact that these texts have several functions, including attracting and convincing consumers to purchase or adhere to what is being advertised. In this sense, the results indicate that the ideational, interpersonal and textual lexicogrammatical aspects are produced and organized by advertising, in order to persuade the reader, and the publications on the social network, on Méqui's Instagram, present linguistic achievements that induce consumers to consume the product, providing a positive, shared and supportive experience, culminating, therefore, in the company's central objective, that is, the sale of the advertised product.
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