A two-period duopoly model is developed to examine the competitive effects of targeted advertising with customer recognition (TACR). In the model, two competing firms sell goods to end consumers in the first period,...A two-period duopoly model is developed to examine the competitive effects of targeted advertising with customer recognition (TACR). In the model, two competing firms sell goods to end consumers in the first period, during which customer recognition is obtained. In the second period, advertising can be targeted toward different consumer types. Advertising is assumed to be persuasive in the way that consumer valuation is increased. Equilibrium decisions and profits in each period are derived, showing that the firm who loses the current competition will win in the future. As a result, forward-looking firms price less aggressively so that their long-term profits can be enhanced with the help of TACR. Particularly, TACR improves profits through three important effects: valuation increasing, customer poaching, and anti-competition. Finally, this paper investigates the welfare issues, showing that firms enhance profits at the expense of consumer surplus. It is, therefore, suggested that public sectors take a step to protect consumers with the rapid development of targeting technology.展开更多
To evaluate the effects of consumers' value attributes on a firm's marketing strategies with targeted advertising, each consumer's value is measured according to the consumer's consuming behavior and consumption f...To evaluate the effects of consumers' value attributes on a firm's marketing strategies with targeted advertising, each consumer's value is measured according to the consumer's consuming behavior and consumption features. The baseline model in which a firm sends targeted advertising to myopic consumers with constant valuations is established. The results showthat, when a firm sells products to consumers with distinct values using the strategies of targeted advertising and discriminative price, the firm's equilibrium profit with targeted advertising may not always be higher than that using mass advertising, which depends on the ratio of high-value and low-value consumers. Then, three extension models are constructed.First, the firm sends targeted advertising to consumers with different targeting precisions. Secondly, the firm invests in the targeting precision of targeted advertising. Finally, the deliberation cost of rational consumers accepting the discriminative price and targeted advertising is considered. The results indicate that it is profitable for a firm to send targeted advertising to consumers with different value attributes.展开更多
Advertisement is a kind of comprehensive art. Translators of advertisements are expected to have a good command of both English and Chinese so as to Obtain wonderful, accurate, vivid, concise, distinct and appealing a...Advertisement is a kind of comprehensive art. Translators of advertisements are expected to have a good command of both English and Chinese so as to Obtain wonderful, accurate, vivid, concise, distinct and appealing advertisements. This paper probes into six common strategies of advertisement translation for the detail study.展开更多
Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Ba...Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Based on an exploratory study of data of six typical Chinese cosmetic advertising discourses, the paper claims that the distribution of mood and modality has close link with the interpersonal meaning in advertising. The Functional Grammar and Appraisal System help to reveal the interpersonal meanings of the discourse concerned.展开更多
A two-period model is developed to investigate the competitive effects of targeted advertising with imperfect targeting in a duopolistic market. In the first period, two firms compete in price in order to recognize cu...A two-period model is developed to investigate the competitive effects of targeted advertising with imperfect targeting in a duopolistic market. In the first period, two firms compete in price in order to recognize customers. In the second period, targeted advertising plays an informative role and acts as a price discrimination device. The firms' optimal advertising and pricing strategies under imperfect targeting are compared with those under perfect targeting. Equilibrium decisions show that, under imperfect targeting, when the advertising cost is low enough, both firms will choose to target ads at the rivals' old segments. This equilibrium, which could not exist under perfect targeting, results in two opposite results. When cost is high, the effect of mis-targeting will soften price competition and increase profits; on the contrary, when cost is low enough, it will lead to aggressive price competition and profit loss with the increase of imperfect targeting, so firms may have incentives to reduce the mis- targeting degree.展开更多
Based on Grice's cooperative principle, Brown and Levinson's politeness strategy, Leech put forward his politeness principle, which serves as a pragmatic principle in daily interpersonal and business communication. ...Based on Grice's cooperative principle, Brown and Levinson's politeness strategy, Leech put forward his politeness principle, which serves as a pragmatic principle in daily interpersonal and business communication. Tourism advertisements, as a means of business communication, have a close relationship with politeness principle. This paper, tram the perspective of the six maxims of politeness principle, analyzes and explores their application to English tourism advertisements and discusses the role of politeness principle in English tourism advertisements.展开更多
Being of semiotics, advertisement discourse provides people not only with delighting colors, outlines and constructions but enlightening sounds. As a result, it is more of a realization of social culture than of econo...Being of semiotics, advertisement discourse provides people not only with delighting colors, outlines and constructions but enlightening sounds. As a result, it is more of a realization of social culture than of economics. This paper, from the point of semiotics, discusses advertisement discourse under the social cultural background, together taking some Chinese advertisements for instances.展开更多
This paper approaches advertisements on the basis of relevant theory. It elaborates how the advertiser as addresser in communication succeed in conveying his intention for publicity and how the recipient as addressee ...This paper approaches advertisements on the basis of relevant theory. It elaborates how the advertiser as addresser in communication succeed in conveying his intention for publicity and how the recipient as addressee takes advantage of different types of relevant devices in reasoning out the communicative purposes from four different angles, namely, non-stereotypical interpretation of advertisements, psychological requirements of the recipient as addressee in advertisements, advertisements as explicit information and the situational approach to implicit meanings of advertisements. It aims at providing guidance for advertisement planning and translation by means of the exposure of rules underlying advertisements.展开更多
We analyzed the advertisement call of Paa spinosa at Yuliang Mountain,Lanxi,Zhejiang Province,in eastern China.Temporal and spectral call parameters were analyzed,along with call intensity.Calls comprised of three to ...We analyzed the advertisement call of Paa spinosa at Yuliang Mountain,Lanxi,Zhejiang Province,in eastern China.Temporal and spectral call parameters were analyzed,along with call intensity.Calls comprised of three to seven notes,the last of which had the longest duration.Three formants(harmonics)were clearly distinguishable from the audio spectrogram.The dominant frequency ranged from 411-1534 Hz,and was either the first or the second formant.The number of notes within a call was positively correlated to air temperature,so that calls contained more notes during the day.Also,the dominant frequency appeared to be lower at the highest temperature.展开更多
In 2011,the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an engineering project to develop an acceleratordriven subcritical system(ADS)for nuclear waste transmutation.The China Lead-based Reactor(CLEAR),proposed by the Instit...In 2011,the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an engineering project to develop an acceleratordriven subcritical system(ADS)for nuclear waste transmutation.The China Lead-based Reactor(CLEAR),proposed by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology,was selected as the reference reactor for ADS development,as well as for the technology development of the Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor.The conceptual design of CLEAR-I with 10 MW thermal power has been completed.KYLIN series lead-bismuth eutectic experimental loops have been constructed to investigate the technologies of the coolant,key components,structural materials,fuel assembly,operation,and control.In order to validate and test the key components and integrated operating technology of the lead-based reactor,the lead alloy-cooled non-nuclear reactor CLEAR-S,the lead-based zero-power nuclear reactor CLEAR-0,and the lead-based virtual reactor CLEAR-V are under realization.展开更多
Contextual advertising is a major revenue source for today's companies. Keyword extraction is a key step in this kind of advertising, through which appropriate advertising keywords are extracted from Web pages so tha...Contextual advertising is a major revenue source for today's companies. Keyword extraction is a key step in this kind of advertising, through which appropriate advertising keywords are extracted from Web pages so that corresponding ads can be triggered. This paper describes a system that learns how to extract keywords from web pages for advertisement targeting. Firstly a text network for a single webpage is build, then PageRank is applied in the network to decide on the importance of a word, finally top-ranked words are selected as keywords of the webpage. The algorithm is tested on the corpus ofblog pages, and the experimental results prove practical and effective.展开更多
With the evolution of network technologies, the deficiencies of TCP protocol are becoming more and more distinct. The new TCP implementation, called Receiver Advertisement Based TCP (TCP-Rab) proposed here to eliminat...With the evolution of network technologies, the deficiencies of TCP protocol are becoming more and more distinct. The new TCP implementation, called Receiver Advertisement Based TCP (TCP-Rab) proposed here to eliminate these deficiencies, adopts two basic mechanisms: (1) Bandwidth Estimation and (2) Immediate Recovery. Bandwidth estimation is carried out at the receiver, and the result is sent back to the sender via the acknowledgments. Immediate Recovery guarantees high performance even in lossy link. Rab can distinguish the reason for packet loss, and thus adopt appropriate recovery strategy. For loss by network congestion, it will back off its congestion window, and for loss by link errors, it will recover the congestion window immediately. Simulations indicated that Rab has superiority over other TCP implementations.展开更多
Advertisement is not only an effective method of promotion, but an elegant act of planning. Successful English advertisements depend on good command and creative application of English words and sentences and smart us...Advertisement is not only an effective method of promotion, but an elegant act of planning. Successful English advertisements depend on good command and creative application of English words and sentences and smart use of various rhetorical devices. Based on some examples, this paper discusses the linguistic characteristics of English business advertisements targeted on female customers.展开更多
Although investigating metaphors in advertising is gaining in popularity, there are still certain unresolved arguments, such as the interaction between elements of different modalities. This study,composed of three be...Although investigating metaphors in advertising is gaining in popularity, there are still certain unresolved arguments, such as the interaction between elements of different modalities. This study,composed of three behavioral experiments, aims to identify how verbal anchoring(literal anchoring, metaphor anchoring and unrelated anchoring) influences the processing of pictorial metaphors in advertising, by observing the cognitive and affective indicators, advertising comprehension and advertising likeability. The results showed 1) that metaphors in pictorial modality were recognized more quickly than those in verbal modality, 2) that verbal anchoring facilitated participants ’ comprehending and appreciating of pictorial metaphors and 3) that literally-anchored metaphors with a moderate level of novelty yielded the most favorable cognitive responses. The study not only enriches the existing theoretical framework of multimodal metaphors in advertising, but also proposes an optimal match between pictorial metaphors and verbal elements, for advertisers and manufacturers to design effective multimodal advertisements.展开更多
“Thumb up advertising”is a new and effective way to spread shared advertising in social media.How the retailer adapts“thumb up advertising”in marketing with a game theory model is analyzed.The results show that wh...“Thumb up advertising”is a new and effective way to spread shared advertising in social media.How the retailer adapts“thumb up advertising”in marketing with a game theory model is analyzed.The results show that when the retailer chooses to thumb up the advertising in Moments,a higher reward will increase the equilibrium price but hurt the retailer s expected profit;if the consumers can more easily reach the thumb up amount,the retailer will charge a higher price,and possibly gain more profit.When the retailer chooses thumb up at the end of the advertising context,a higher reward will increase the equilibrium price and the retailers expected profit will increase/decrease.If the consumers are easier to reach the thumb up amount,the retailer will charge a higher price,and may get more profit.If a consumer s click cost of clicking the sharing advertising is higher,the retailer charges a lower price;and if the consumer s additional perceived value from the advertising is higher,the retailer charges a higher price and reaps more profit.展开更多
An integrated implementation framework of an intelligent recommendation system for outdoor video advertising is proposed, which is based on the analysis of audiences' characteristics. Firstly, the images of the scene...An integrated implementation framework of an intelligent recommendation system for outdoor video advertising is proposed, which is based on the analysis of audiences' characteristics. Firstly, the images of the scene and the people who view the video advertisements are captured by the net- work camera deployed on the video advertising terminal side. Then audiences' characteristics can be obtained by applying computer vision technologies : face detection, face tracking, gender recogni- tion and age estimation. Finally, an intelligent recommendation algorithm is designed to decide the most fitting video ads for each terminal according to multi-dimensional statistical information of its reover, a novel face detection method and a new face tracking method have been proposed to meet the practical requirements of the system, of which the average Fl-score is O. 988 and 0. 951 respec- tively.展开更多
The pun becomes the most popular language strategy for advertisers as a broadly used rhetorical device. Using pun words felicitously not only makes advertising language more humorous, implicative, and vivid but also l...The pun becomes the most popular language strategy for advertisers as a broadly used rhetorical device. Using pun words felicitously not only makes advertising language more humorous, implicative, and vivid but also leaves the audience a room to imagine and enjoy. The author summarizes pun's definitions, features, classifications, and how the pun procures a successful communicative activity in English advertisements based on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. At last, the pun's pragmatic functions are concluded.展开更多
With the rapid development of globalization, more and more factories and companies in China are keen to put their products onto the international market. Advertising translation is the outcome of this economic trend. ...With the rapid development of globalization, more and more factories and companies in China are keen to put their products onto the international market. Advertising translation is the outcome of this economic trend. This paper tries to analyze cross-cultural pragmatic failure in English advertisements translated from Chinese at lexical and textual levels, and puts forward some suggestions on how to avoid cross-cultural pragmatic failure.展开更多
In modem society, advertising plays a very important role in people's daily life. We can not imagine the world without advertisements. Advertisers try every means to design persuasive advertisements for their product...In modem society, advertising plays a very important role in people's daily life. We can not imagine the world without advertisements. Advertisers try every means to design persuasive advertisements for their products by attractive patterns, photos and colors, as well as commonly shared resources of language. The use of presupposition in advertising language, which is an important topic in pragmaties, can serve the function fairly well. This paper first presents a general review of previous studies on presupposition phenomena in advertising language, then investigates the use of presuppositions in advertising language by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. By qualitative analysis, the author tries to explore the functions of each type of presuppositions in advertising texts; by quantitative analysis, 100 sentences selected from various advertisements for different products are examined.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71071033)the Research and Innovation Project for College Graduates of Jiangsu Province(No.CXZZ-0186)
文摘A two-period duopoly model is developed to examine the competitive effects of targeted advertising with customer recognition (TACR). In the model, two competing firms sell goods to end consumers in the first period, during which customer recognition is obtained. In the second period, advertising can be targeted toward different consumer types. Advertising is assumed to be persuasive in the way that consumer valuation is increased. Equilibrium decisions and profits in each period are derived, showing that the firm who loses the current competition will win in the future. As a result, forward-looking firms price less aggressively so that their long-term profits can be enhanced with the help of TACR. Particularly, TACR improves profits through three important effects: valuation increasing, customer poaching, and anti-competition. Finally, this paper investigates the welfare issues, showing that firms enhance profits at the expense of consumer surplus. It is, therefore, suggested that public sectors take a step to protect consumers with the rapid development of targeting technology.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71371050)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.3214005308)
文摘To evaluate the effects of consumers' value attributes on a firm's marketing strategies with targeted advertising, each consumer's value is measured according to the consumer's consuming behavior and consumption features. The baseline model in which a firm sends targeted advertising to myopic consumers with constant valuations is established. The results showthat, when a firm sells products to consumers with distinct values using the strategies of targeted advertising and discriminative price, the firm's equilibrium profit with targeted advertising may not always be higher than that using mass advertising, which depends on the ratio of high-value and low-value consumers. Then, three extension models are constructed.First, the firm sends targeted advertising to consumers with different targeting precisions. Secondly, the firm invests in the targeting precision of targeted advertising. Finally, the deliberation cost of rational consumers accepting the discriminative price and targeted advertising is considered. The results indicate that it is profitable for a firm to send targeted advertising to consumers with different value attributes.
文摘Advertisement is a kind of comprehensive art. Translators of advertisements are expected to have a good command of both English and Chinese so as to Obtain wonderful, accurate, vivid, concise, distinct and appealing advertisements. This paper probes into six common strategies of advertisement translation for the detail study.
文摘Interpersonal function is one of the three metafunctions of language. This paper investigates the interpersonal meanings in Chinese cosmetic advertising discourse from mood, modality and appraise the three aspects. Based on an exploratory study of data of six typical Chinese cosmetic advertising discourses, the paper claims that the distribution of mood and modality has close link with the interpersonal meaning in advertising. The Functional Grammar and Appraisal System help to reveal the interpersonal meanings of the discourse concerned.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71371050)
文摘A two-period model is developed to investigate the competitive effects of targeted advertising with imperfect targeting in a duopolistic market. In the first period, two firms compete in price in order to recognize customers. In the second period, targeted advertising plays an informative role and acts as a price discrimination device. The firms' optimal advertising and pricing strategies under imperfect targeting are compared with those under perfect targeting. Equilibrium decisions show that, under imperfect targeting, when the advertising cost is low enough, both firms will choose to target ads at the rivals' old segments. This equilibrium, which could not exist under perfect targeting, results in two opposite results. When cost is high, the effect of mis-targeting will soften price competition and increase profits; on the contrary, when cost is low enough, it will lead to aggressive price competition and profit loss with the increase of imperfect targeting, so firms may have incentives to reduce the mis- targeting degree.
文摘Based on Grice's cooperative principle, Brown and Levinson's politeness strategy, Leech put forward his politeness principle, which serves as a pragmatic principle in daily interpersonal and business communication. Tourism advertisements, as a means of business communication, have a close relationship with politeness principle. This paper, tram the perspective of the six maxims of politeness principle, analyzes and explores their application to English tourism advertisements and discusses the role of politeness principle in English tourism advertisements.
文摘Being of semiotics, advertisement discourse provides people not only with delighting colors, outlines and constructions but enlightening sounds. As a result, it is more of a realization of social culture than of economics. This paper, from the point of semiotics, discusses advertisement discourse under the social cultural background, together taking some Chinese advertisements for instances.
文摘This paper approaches advertisements on the basis of relevant theory. It elaborates how the advertiser as addresser in communication succeed in conveying his intention for publicity and how the recipient as addressee takes advantage of different types of relevant devices in reasoning out the communicative purposes from four different angles, namely, non-stereotypical interpretation of advertisements, psychological requirements of the recipient as addressee in advertisements, advertisements as explicit information and the situational approach to implicit meanings of advertisements. It aims at providing guidance for advertisement planning and translation by means of the exposure of rules underlying advertisements.
基金supported by the Science Technology Commission of Zhejiang Province of China(No.2006C22031)
文摘We analyzed the advertisement call of Paa spinosa at Yuliang Mountain,Lanxi,Zhejiang Province,in eastern China.Temporal and spectral call parameters were analyzed,along with call intensity.Calls comprised of three to seven notes,the last of which had the longest duration.Three formants(harmonics)were clearly distinguishable from the audio spectrogram.The dominant frequency ranged from 411-1534 Hz,and was either the first or the second formant.The number of notes within a call was positively correlated to air temperature,so that calls contained more notes during the day.Also,the dominant frequency appeared to be lower at the highest temperature.
文摘In 2011,the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an engineering project to develop an acceleratordriven subcritical system(ADS)for nuclear waste transmutation.The China Lead-based Reactor(CLEAR),proposed by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology,was selected as the reference reactor for ADS development,as well as for the technology development of the Generation IV lead-cooled fast reactor.The conceptual design of CLEAR-I with 10 MW thermal power has been completed.KYLIN series lead-bismuth eutectic experimental loops have been constructed to investigate the technologies of the coolant,key components,structural materials,fuel assembly,operation,and control.In order to validate and test the key components and integrated operating technology of the lead-based reactor,the lead alloy-cooled non-nuclear reactor CLEAR-S,the lead-based zero-power nuclear reactor CLEAR-0,and the lead-based virtual reactor CLEAR-V are under realization.
基金This study is supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation of (4092029) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2009RC0217).
文摘Contextual advertising is a major revenue source for today's companies. Keyword extraction is a key step in this kind of advertising, through which appropriate advertising keywords are extracted from Web pages so that corresponding ads can be triggered. This paper describes a system that learns how to extract keywords from web pages for advertisement targeting. Firstly a text network for a single webpage is build, then PageRank is applied in the network to decide on the importance of a word, finally top-ranked words are selected as keywords of the webpage. The algorithm is tested on the corpus ofblog pages, and the experimental results prove practical and effective.
文摘With the evolution of network technologies, the deficiencies of TCP protocol are becoming more and more distinct. The new TCP implementation, called Receiver Advertisement Based TCP (TCP-Rab) proposed here to eliminate these deficiencies, adopts two basic mechanisms: (1) Bandwidth Estimation and (2) Immediate Recovery. Bandwidth estimation is carried out at the receiver, and the result is sent back to the sender via the acknowledgments. Immediate Recovery guarantees high performance even in lossy link. Rab can distinguish the reason for packet loss, and thus adopt appropriate recovery strategy. For loss by network congestion, it will back off its congestion window, and for loss by link errors, it will recover the congestion window immediately. Simulations indicated that Rab has superiority over other TCP implementations.
文摘Advertisement is not only an effective method of promotion, but an elegant act of planning. Successful English advertisements depend on good command and creative application of English words and sentences and smart use of various rhetorical devices. Based on some examples, this paper discusses the linguistic characteristics of English business advertisements targeted on female customers.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19BYY088)。
文摘Although investigating metaphors in advertising is gaining in popularity, there are still certain unresolved arguments, such as the interaction between elements of different modalities. This study,composed of three behavioral experiments, aims to identify how verbal anchoring(literal anchoring, metaphor anchoring and unrelated anchoring) influences the processing of pictorial metaphors in advertising, by observing the cognitive and affective indicators, advertising comprehension and advertising likeability. The results showed 1) that metaphors in pictorial modality were recognized more quickly than those in verbal modality, 2) that verbal anchoring facilitated participants ’ comprehending and appreciating of pictorial metaphors and 3) that literally-anchored metaphors with a moderate level of novelty yielded the most favorable cognitive responses. The study not only enriches the existing theoretical framework of multimodal metaphors in advertising, but also proposes an optimal match between pictorial metaphors and verbal elements, for advertisers and manufacturers to design effective multimodal advertisements.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71371050),the National Social Science Fund of China(No.17BGL196).
文摘“Thumb up advertising”is a new and effective way to spread shared advertising in social media.How the retailer adapts“thumb up advertising”in marketing with a game theory model is analyzed.The results show that when the retailer chooses to thumb up the advertising in Moments,a higher reward will increase the equilibrium price but hurt the retailer s expected profit;if the consumers can more easily reach the thumb up amount,the retailer will charge a higher price,and possibly gain more profit.When the retailer chooses thumb up at the end of the advertising context,a higher reward will increase the equilibrium price and the retailers expected profit will increase/decrease.If the consumers are easier to reach the thumb up amount,the retailer will charge a higher price,and may get more profit.If a consumer s click cost of clicking the sharing advertising is higher,the retailer charges a lower price;and if the consumer s additional perceived value from the advertising is higher,the retailer charges a higher price and reaps more profit.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2011AA01A102)the Important Science&Technology Project of Hainan Province(No.JDJS2013006,ZDXM2015103)the Young Talent Frontier Project of Institute of Acoustics,Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘An integrated implementation framework of an intelligent recommendation system for outdoor video advertising is proposed, which is based on the analysis of audiences' characteristics. Firstly, the images of the scene and the people who view the video advertisements are captured by the net- work camera deployed on the video advertising terminal side. Then audiences' characteristics can be obtained by applying computer vision technologies : face detection, face tracking, gender recogni- tion and age estimation. Finally, an intelligent recommendation algorithm is designed to decide the most fitting video ads for each terminal according to multi-dimensional statistical information of its reover, a novel face detection method and a new face tracking method have been proposed to meet the practical requirements of the system, of which the average Fl-score is O. 988 and 0. 951 respec- tively.
文摘The pun becomes the most popular language strategy for advertisers as a broadly used rhetorical device. Using pun words felicitously not only makes advertising language more humorous, implicative, and vivid but also leaves the audience a room to imagine and enjoy. The author summarizes pun's definitions, features, classifications, and how the pun procures a successful communicative activity in English advertisements based on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. At last, the pun's pragmatic functions are concluded.
文摘With the rapid development of globalization, more and more factories and companies in China are keen to put their products onto the international market. Advertising translation is the outcome of this economic trend. This paper tries to analyze cross-cultural pragmatic failure in English advertisements translated from Chinese at lexical and textual levels, and puts forward some suggestions on how to avoid cross-cultural pragmatic failure.
文摘In modem society, advertising plays a very important role in people's daily life. We can not imagine the world without advertisements. Advertisers try every means to design persuasive advertisements for their products by attractive patterns, photos and colors, as well as commonly shared resources of language. The use of presupposition in advertising language, which is an important topic in pragmaties, can serve the function fairly well. This paper first presents a general review of previous studies on presupposition phenomena in advertising language, then investigates the use of presuppositions in advertising language by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. By qualitative analysis, the author tries to explore the functions of each type of presuppositions in advertising texts; by quantitative analysis, 100 sentences selected from various advertisements for different products are examined.