Abstract:
The study titled Images of Transgenders (Male-to-Female) in Dietary Supplement Product Advertisement Pherone was conducted with two primary objectives: 1) to analyze the linguistic strategies used in the advertisement and 2) to examine the images of transgender women in the advertisement. The results revealed four linguistic strategies: 1) word usage, which can be further categorized into six patterns: (1) words identifying transgender women, (2) words describing the feelings or behaviors of transgender women, (3) words describing appearance, (4) use of female pronouns and female final particles, (5) collective pronouns, and (6) slang; 2) presupposition; 3) presupposition negation; and 4) metaphor. The analysis of linguistic strategies revealed three images of transgender women: 1) transgender women are attentive to their appearance, 2) transgender women are discerning consumers, and 3) transgender women are not perceived as genuine women.