Abstract:
The purposes of the research were 1) to study the relationship between the methods which were used for telling story in the advertising films of Thai Life Insurance and Monroe's Motivated Sequence and 2) to study the use of persuasive language in the advertising films of Thai Life Insurance. The data had been collected by transcribing the information from 30 advertising films of Thai Life Insurance Company Limited that had been conducted from 2010 to 2020. The results showed that every part of the storytelling was related to the Monroe's Motivated Sequence. In term of the plots which were the chronologies of the stories, they showed as follows: the opening of the advertising films of Thai Life Insurance involved with Attention Step, the proceeding of the films involved with Need Step and Satisfaction Step, and the ending of the advertising films of Thai Life Insurance involved with Visualization Step. Although the relationship between the storytellers, characters, and scenes and each step could not be clearly identified, they all helped the films be more completed and consistent with the storylines from the beginnings to the ends. Therefore, they were related to Monroe's Motivated Sequence (from step 1 to step 4). Additionally, they also encouraged persuasion and led to the Action step. In terms of concepts, it was found that both the main concepts which invited customers to buy insurance from Thai Life Insurance Company and the seven secondary concepts were all corresponded to the step leading to action directly and indirectly. In terms of the use of persuasive language, it was found that there were five genres of word usage, including 1) words which were product names, 2) words related to diseases, 3) words related to the personal information of interviewees in the films, 4) words related to time, and 5) words related to danger. For sentence usage, it was divided into two genres including 1) informative sentence, and 2) imperative sentence classified as a sentence telling customers to have some insurances and do things that make lives better. For the figures of speech, it was divided into five genres including 1) Personification, 2) Citing, 3) Rhetorical questions, 4) Simile, and 5) Metaphor. The use of persuasive language in the advertising films of Thai Life Insurance helped audiences to better understand the intent hidden in the advertisements.