A Discourse of Beauty Standards in Japanese Beauty Product Advertisement (Japanese Women Perspective)
Ni Made Savitri Paramita | Eka Marthanty Indah Lestari
Abstract:
This study uses a Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze advertisements' textual and visual elements and discursive and
sociocultural analysis of beauty product advertisements in Japan.
Data were taken and studied from several examples of beauty product
advertisements and interviews with seven Japanese women as informants about the discourse in beauty product advertisements. In
addition, the speakers were also asked to express their opinions regarding the beauty standards in Japanese society today.
The results show that advertising has a role in reproducing and
maintaining the standard of beauty in Japanese society. The image of
women with clean and shining white skin is still the standard for Japanese women. Taglines and beauty products in Japan offer clean white
skin as demanded in Japanese society. From this, it is also known that
advertising producers use beauty constructions formed in society to
make advertisements for beauty products. This causes the discourse
on Japanese beauty standards to persist in Japanese society.
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