Est Bioré First Advertisement Bioré Second Advertisement
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the whole text and the picture in the advertisement, the researcher finds the most appropriate meaning of out is available to everyone; known to everyone. It is
because when a product is advertised, it means it will be known to everyone and also it will be available to everyone.
The ambiguity found in the cosmetic printed avertisements are not mistakes and made with purpose by the advertiser. One of the purposes is to
attract the readers’ attention. As mentioned in the Chapter I, Goddard states advertisement as something which is made to get our attention and make us turn
toward them 1998: 6. It can be concluded that ambiguity found in the advertisements belongs to the style of advertisements’ style.
Based on the analysis above, it can be concluded that from 20 advertisements, 11 of them are ambiguous and 9 are not. It can be shown in the
chart below.
Ambiguous and Unambiguous Advertisements
Ambiguous Unambiguous
Chart 1. Ambiguous and Unambiguous Advertisements
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The chart above shows that 11 advertisements or 55 are ambiguous and 9 advertisements or 45 are not. It can be concluded that most of cosmetic
advertisements are ambiguous or having ambiguous words in it. In more details, the ambiguity of the phrases and sentences in the
advertisements are shown in the charts as follows.
Chart 2. Ambiguous and Unambiguous Phrases
Chart 3. Ambiguous and Unambiguous Sentences
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The chart above shows that 8 phrases or 19,04 of 42 phrases are ambiguous and 6 sentences or 50 of 12 sentences are ambiguous. It can be
concluded that most of phrases are not ambiguous and half of the sentences are ambiguous.