Peptides, proteins and peeling active ingredients: exploring ‘scientific’ language in English and French cosmetics advertising

  • Ringrow H
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in English: Cosmetics brands are increasingly employing a 'scientific' or, perhaps more accurately, a pseudo-scientific discourse in their advertisements to help authenticate a particular product in the global beauty marketplace. These advertisements often create and reinforce a connection between beauty and science. This article explores this current phenomenon through critical linguistic analysis of a corpus of Metropolitan French and British English beauty advertisements from May to September 2011. The article also draws on broader issues relating to the use of pseudo-scientific discourse in cosmetics advertising, including questions of (mis)representation of science, consumer response, gender, and advertising regulation in both French and English contexts. Note: Some of the content from this article appeared in RINGROW, H. 2013. « The 'scientific' language of beauty advertisements. » Babel: The Language Magazine. Issue 4. (38-43).

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Ringrow, H. (2014). Peptides, proteins and peeling active ingredients: exploring ‘scientific’ language in English and French cosmetics advertising. Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise, (7), 183–210. https://doi.org/10.4000/esa.1322

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