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4.1 Body copy of advertisements ……………………………………………... 12 4.2 Differences in body copy ……………………………………………. 12 5. Conclusion ………………………………………………………………… 14 Acknowledgement Sincere thanks go to Dr. Wei Naixing for his insightful guidance and earnest help all through the searching, analysis and paper-writing stages. The author also wants to extend her thanks to Ms. Linda Frost who has given much help in data collecting. References [1] Bolinger, Dwight & Sears, Donald A. Aspects of Language third edition New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981 [2] Bovee, Courtland L. & Arens, William F. Contemporary Advertising forth edition Homewood, IL: Irwin 1992 [3] Gove, Philip Babcock Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Co. 1976 [4] Gregory, Michael Language Varieties and Their Social Contexts London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1981 [5] Jefkins, Frank William Advertising Philadelphia, PA: Macdonald and Evans 1985 [6] O’Donnell, W. R. & Todd, Loreto Variety in Contemporary English London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd. 1985 [7] Roberts, William H. & Turgeon, Gregoire About Language second editon Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1989 [8] Vestergaard, Torben & Schr der, Kim The language of Advertising Oxford[Oxfordshire]; New York, NY, USA: B. Blackwell 1985 [9] 方薇《现代英语广告教程》南京大学出版社 1997 [10]崔刚，韩宝成，李营，《广告英语》北京理工大学出版社1993 　 1. Introduction 1.1 Rationale of the study We live in a world of advertising. As potential consumers, we are endlessly bombarded with all kinds of product or service information from various media including newspapers, magazines, television, radio, posters and Internet, etc. Advertising provides a valuable service to society and its members, because it defines for consumers the meaning and the role of products, services, and institutions. It indicates the difference that exists between brands of products and alternative services, as well as the distinguishing characteristics of companies and institutions. Advertising also tells the consumer what a specific product, brand or service should do when it is used and thus helps him or her to understand and evaluate experience with the products and services that he or she uses. On the other hand, by making people aware of products, service and ideas, advertising promotes sales and profits. Finally, advertising is one of the major forces that are helping improve the standard of living around the world. Combined with all these communicational, Marketing and social functions. Advertising becomes indispensable in the modern world. Naturally, advertisements in English have become an important means of communicating ideas, demonstrating a variety of linguistic features of its own. The present study attempts to examine these features at the lexical, syntactic and discourse levels, in the hope of bringing them to light and, thereby, offering help to advertisement writers and language learners. 1.2 Definition of advertising According to the Definition Committee of American Marketing Association(方薇, 1997:2) advertising is defined as follows: Advertising is the nonpersonal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through th