An Analysis of Conative Role of Language in Advertisements

Today, dealers, institutions and service providers need to attract customers to their product with effective advertisements. The commercials then play an important role for selling and effectively attracting customers. The language tools help to encourage customers to purchase goods. Jakobson- linguist and founder of the Prague school- enumerated six roles for language, one of which is the conative role. According to this view, it is possible to distinguish three types of conative roles: encouraging, descriptive and threatening. In the present study, 100 cases of frequently encountered commercials were reviewed. The findings of the study indicated that the encouraging conative role (47%) was used more frequently than descriptive conative (46%) and threatening conative (7%) roles