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28 and Food Products”. His research emphasis was on the linguistic forms, the types,
and the meaning of English slogan by using semantic approach. He concluded that the slogan used in cosmetic products has mostly conceptual meaning. Besides, the
slogan used in food products applied the connotative meaning. The second research is written by Ni’mah 2012 entitled “A Semantic Analysis of English
Slogan on Mobile Phone and Car advertisement”. She analyzed the linguistic forms and the lexical meanings of English slogan in mobile phone and car
advertisements by using a semantic approach. She concluded that the English slogan used in mobile phone and car advertisements are in the forms of a clause is
in the lowest data. In the middle data is a sentence and the most data are in form of a phrase and it is high categories. Furthermore, the lexical meaning of all the
data in her research in mobile phone and car products is given by dictionary. The third researcher is Pratiwi 2008 who wrote “A Pragmatic Study on Clothes
Advertisement Slogans in Aneka Magazine Issued in January - September 2006”. In this research, her focus was on a pragmatic analysis in directive utterance. In
the problem statement, it is just found that the writer elaborated the pragmatic meaning in utterances.
Having reviewed the related studies on pragmatics, the researcher was aware that those three studies above have some similarities with mine. The
similarity between the previous researchers and mine is the use of slogan that occurs in a certain context which has a unique use. The uniqueness of the slogan
can be seen in the words and the language features used and it may attract people to read it and in turn get interested in the products. Both of them analyzed the
29 linguistic units or the linguistic forms of the English slogan. Their researches
studies have led the researcher to analyze English slogan’s features used by mobile phone products. The differences are the researcher put this study focusing
on the percentage of the linguistic forms and the implicature meanings of the English slogan implied in slogan mobile phone advertisements.