Question

Identify words in the following watch advertisement that signal a specialized audience. "The Oyster Perpetual Milgauss is the ultimate reference chosen by professionals in the pursuit of discovery. The perfectly designed magnetic shield, and other modifications like the Parachrom hairspring that protect the movement, help the Milgauss resist magnetic fields of up to 1,000 Gauss."

Answer 1

Words like pursuit, discovery, magnetic shield, modifications, Gauss can help identify the specialized audience.

Step-by-step explanation:

Semantics is the linguistic study of meaning in language; it tries to discuss and identify the relation between signifiers (words, phrases, signs, symbols, the order of words and/or ideas) and their denotation, what they really stand for. It is very helpful to decide a target audience. In the passage, the words indicated in the answer belong to a specialized audience related to science; the words are not very common and they are used in very particular fields of study.