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Milagros Del Saz-Rubio. 2018. Female identities in TV toiletries ads: A pragmatic and multimodal analysis of implied meanings. Journal of Pragmatics 136 : 54–78.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Female identities in toiletries ads are implicitly expressed via the joint use of verbal, visual and auditory stimuli. Stereotypical female identities are built via women’s sexual and beauty empowerment through product consumption. Women’s capacity to surmount inner emotional struggles forms another source for female identity building. Women construct confidentiality via close-ups and demand gazes while assuming subordinate poses remindful of subordination to men.