Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marilda.pdf: 21251034 bytes, checksum: fbb712788b37850e1480a3406e076ad8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present study is developed in the field of discourse analysis of advertising and, since it has as theoretical referencIal the semiotics of A.J. Greimas and his disciples, focuses on the studies and semiolinguistic structures of syncretic texts of advertising whose codes are examined without their pre-existing meaning, but in the construction process of a semantic unit, in which the meaning of a language homologates that of another. The hypothesis stems from the multiculturalism that, promoting the homogenization of socio-cultural values, implies variety of products and above all, renewal of brand discourse. Corpus is constituted by advertisements of multinational companies in magazines for public with specific interests and its study aims at examining verbal-visual procedures that manifest brand interaction with such interests, according to three dimensions: pragmatic, passionate and cognitive. The analysis demonstrated that the hypotheses was confirmed, once the company diversified its products from 2003 on and above all, especially its advertising programming, creating specific texts for each target audience. However, its discourse privileged and identities pertaining to global culture, not local, since it explores the passions of man in general and examines them in view of the logic of transformations, tensions and knowledge, logic which punctuates the activities pertinent to the interests of readers of each magazine. The study evidenced few changes in linguistic structures focused on information nearly always objective and concise, but plenty of variety, originality and subtlety in the choice and combination of vision whose various resources, especially chromatic and topologic, (re)construct the verbal to reveal passions, (re)signify actions and euphemize desires / A pesquisa desenvolve-se no campo da análise do discurso publicitário e, tendo como referencial teórico a semiótica de A. J. Greimas e seus discípulos, centra-se no estudo das estruturas semiolingüísticas de textos sincréticos de anúncios, cujos códigos são examinados sem seu sentido preexistente, mas em processo de construção de uma unidade semântica, na qual o sentido de uma linguagem homologa o de outra. A hipótese origina-se no multiculturalismo que, promovendo a homogeneização de valores socioculturais, implica variedade de produtos e, sobretudo, renovação do discurso da marca. O corpus é constituído de anúncios de empresa multinacional em revistas para público com interesses específicos e seu estudo objetiva examinar os procedimentos verbo-visuais que manifestam a interação da marca com esses interesses, conforme três dimensões: pragmática, passional e cognitiva. A análise demonstrou que a hipótese foi confirmada, pois a empresa diversificou, a partir de 2003, seus produtos e, sobretudo, sua programação publicitária, criando textos específicos para cada público-alvo. Entretanto, seu discurso privilegiou imagens e identidades próprias da cultura global, mas não local, visto que explora as paixões do homem em geral e as examina segundo a lógica das transformações, tensões e conhecimento, lógica que pontua as atividades pertinentes aos interesses dos enunciatários de cada revista. O estudo evidenciou poucas mudanças nas estruturas lingüísticas, centradas em informações quase sempre objetivas e concisas, mas bastante diversidade, originalidade e sutileza na escolha e combinação do visual, cujos vários recursos, sobretudo, cromáticos e topológicos, (re)constroem semioticamente o verbal de modo a revelar paixões, (re)significar ações e eufemizar desejos

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:27:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lenita.pdf: 1898462 bytes, checksum: 457ad33d85044e1a8b55de17c2fd1bb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / This research aims to demonstrate that the texts of national and international advertisements diffused in the media convey a racist appeal in the representation of black women and how, implied or otherwise, prejudice is manifested by the linguistic materiality and imagery. The corpus consists of five commercials, conveyed in print and/or television with examples of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, selected by portraying black and white women differently. The advertisements are: N.K Fairbank Company (1860), Benetton (1991/92), Sony (2006), Dove (2011) and Bombril (2012). The theoretical foundation supports itself mainly on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), from the work of Norman Fairclough (2001), based on the category of interdiscursivity. I also apply the gender studies by Lauretis (1994) and Nicholson (2000), the postulates about racism by Van Dijk (2008), the propositions on media by Chauí (2010), the techniques of image analysis by Joly (2010) and Thompson´s concept of ideology (1995). The research results confirm the hypothesis, that is, they demonstrate that all analyzed advertisements feature verbal and visual texts that make up a typical construct of discourse steeped in racism and in the sovereingty of the white women. This enables the display of discriminatory practices at the service of the elite that values the white race and makes explicit the meanings that maintain and reproduce ethnic prejudice by perpetuating racism / Este trabalho de pesquisa tem como objetivo demonstrar que nos textos de anúncios publicitários nacionais e internacionais veiculados na mídia há incitação racista na representação de mulheres negras e de que forma, implícita ou não, o preconceito se manifesta por meio da materialidade linguística e imagética. O corpus é constituído por cinco anúncios publicitários, veiculados em mídia impressa e/ou televisiva com exemplos dos séculos XIX, XX e XXI, selecionados por retratar as mulheres negras e brancas de forma diferenciada. Os anúncios escolhidos são: N. K. Fairbank Company (1860), Benetton (1991/92), Sony (2006), Dove (2011) e Bombril (2012). A fundamentação teórica ampara-se, principalmente, na Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), a partir da obra de Norman Fairclough (2001), com base na categoria da interdiscursividade. Utilizo ainda os estudos de gênero de Lauretis (1994) e Nicholson (2000), os postulados acerca de racismo de Van Dijk (2008), as proposições sobre mídia de Chauí (2010), as técnicas de análise de imagens de Joly (2010) e o conceito de ideologia de Thompson (1995). Os resultados da pesquisa confirmam a hipótese, isto é, demonstram que todos os anúncios analisados apresentam textos verbais e visuais que compõem um construto típico de discurso envolto em racismo e na soberania das mulheres brancas. Isso possibilita a exposição de práticas discriminatórias a serviço da elite, que valoriza a raça branca, por explicitar sentidos que mantêm e reproduzem o preconceito étnico, perpetuando o racismo

From the television advertisements made by presidential candidates from 1952 to 1976, this study analyzed the 131 advertisements that contained women. The analysis used the following descriptors: Number of Women's Roles, Age, Occupation, Marital Status, Locale, Concerns, and Status Relative to the Candidate. The results indicate that women are most likely to be shown as physically present although not speaking, in the 18 to 30 age group, belonging to a non-business atmosphere yet outside the home, and of an unknown marital status, and will not be shown in the same frame as the candidate. Womens' images in these advertisements were most commonly associated with issues involving the cost of living, taxes, pro-Nixon, and social security.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PEDRO HENRIQUE DE CARVALHO OLIVEIRA.pdf: 2057019 bytes, checksum: d5fed683839c5e7607c9182a347ea30d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / By means of ads run in the luxury market, this research aims to demonstrate how the procurement process in force in the luxury market is structured, where someone who purchases the designer product is the same person that is acquired by the brand itself, so there is an acquisition process between both parties. The hypothesis is that there are factors implicit in the actions of buying luxury acting on consumers, defining them implicitly while they believe that they are subjects of their own behaviors. The methodology adopted was to collect advertisements for luxury products aimed at the fairly affluent market, taken from magazines with a readership profile of class A, according to the Serasa Experian Criterion, the national method for measuring the social class of individuals based on the conditions of life and earning opportunities. Such an analysis is carried out mainly from the semiotic imagery of culture, anthropology and image theory. In order to develop the work it was necessary to complete a brief study, not just about what is meant by the luxury market, but also the claims related to consumption as a social and cultural phenomenon, environments where specialty acquisition belongs. The theoretical basis for the development of the research is from authors such as Tomás Moulian, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Baudrilard, Zygmunt Bauman, as well as Villém Flusser, Ivan Bystrina and Norval Baitello Jr. The body of this research is basically composed of Brazilian luxury magazines. As a thematic profile, there is a special focus on ads related to products for personal use, not just because of the importance of brands and the variety of items available to potential buyers, but also because of the scope of this market. As a hypothesis, in the case of luxury acquisitions, the first implication is that there is a second form of consumption coming from the product to the buyer, which is known as reverse consumption. The second relates to the fact that, in addition to the determination of the individual, there is a hetero-determination quality in the buying process based on the other, from a need for positive social self-assertion / Por meio de anúncios veiculados no mercado de luxo, o objetivo desta pesquisa é demonstrar como se estruturam os processos de compra vigentes no mercado de luxo, onde aquele que adquire o produto de grife é o mesmo indivíduo que é adquirido pela própria grife, existindo assim um processo de aquisição mútua entre as partes. A hipótese é a de que existem fatores implícitos nas ações de compra de luxo agindo sobre os consumidores, determinando-as implicitamente enquanto acreditam que são sujeitos de suas atitudes.Como metodologia, adotou-se a coleta de anúncios de produtos de luxo voltados a mercados bastante abastados, retirados de revistas com perfil de leitores da classe A, conforme o Critério Serasa Experian, instrumento nacional para determinação de classe social dos indivíduos a partir das condições de vida e possibilidades de ganhos. Tal análise é realizada principalmente a partir das visões da semiótica da cultura, antropologia e da teoria da imagem. Para o desenvolvimento do trabalho foi necessário proceder a um breve estudo, não apenas daquilo que se entende por mercado de luxo, mas também dos conteúdos referentes ao consumo como um fenômeno social e cultural, ambientes onde a aquisição por especialidade se insere. A base teórica para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa são oriundas de autores como Tomás Moulian, Gilles Lipovetsky, Jean Baudrilard, Zygmunt Bauman, além de Villém Flusser, Ivan Bystrina e Norval Baitello Jr. O corpus desta pesquisa é constituído basicamente por revistas consideradas de luxo brasileiras. Como recorte temático, há um foco especial nos anúncios relacionados a produtos de uso pessoal, não apenas pela importância das marcas e variedade de itens à disposição dos potenciais compradores, mas também pela própria abrangência deste mercado. Como hipóteses, no caso das aquisições de luxo, tem-se primeiramente que há implicitamente uma segunda forma de consumo, vinda da parte do produto para o comprador, que se denominou de consumo reverso. A segunda se prende ao fato de que, além de uma determinação do indivíduo, há um caráter de heterodeterminação no processo de compra baseado no outro, a partir de uma necessidade de favorável auto-afirmação social

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本論文探討在女性時尚雜誌中，美容用品廣告所使用的社會語用策略及語言手段。在本研究中，以Cook (2001)的廣告方法，Searle (1969)的適切條件，Grice (1975)的合作原則，以及Leech (1983)的禮貌原則做為分析的準則。 研究中分析的資料來自兩本女性時尚雜誌，Beauty和Elle。在語料量化分析方面，收錄了200條廣告詞，均分為兩類美容用品：化妝品和保養品。此外，在訪談質化分析方面，有12位女性受訪，以便評量4條選定的廣告詞之可信度。 語料的量化分析顯示：(1) 不同種類的美容用品有偏好的廣告方式。(2) 合作原則和禮貌原則的分配情形不同。(3) 以女性意識形態來說，化妝品廣告和保養品廣告有相異之處。(4) 不同的語言手段被用來廣告這兩類美容用品。 訪談的質化分析顯示：(1) 受訪者的社會背景(教育程度和年齡)影響她們對廣告的態度。(2) 不同的廣告方式影響受訪者對廣告的態度。(3) 廣告的類別不影響受訪者在適切條件、合作原則、以及禮貌原則上對廣告的態度。基於以上的分析，可以發現潛在消費者對說服力的認知與廣告主不吻合。也就是說，消費者不認為所分析的廣告有說服力，這顯示廣告無法滿足消費者的需求。本研究建議廣告主應該從消費者的觀點出發並補救這個問題。 / This study aims at exploring the sociopragmatic strategies and the linguistic devices employed in the beauty product advertisements in women’s fashion magazines. In this study, Cook’s advertising approach (2001), Searle’s Felicity Conditions (1969), Grice’s Cooperative Principle (1975), and Leech’s Politeness Principle (1983) are the criteria for analyses. This study takes both quantitative analyses and qualitative analyses. For quantitative analyses, 200 pieces of advertisements were collected from two women’s fashion magazines, Beauty and Elle. These data are equally distributed to two types of beauty products: cosmetic products and skin-care products. In addition, for qualitative analyses, twelve women were interviewed to evaluate the effectiveness of the elements contained in four pieces of advertisements selected. Results of quantitative analyses show (1) that hard-sell approach is preferred on beauty products; (2) that the distribution of the maxims of Cooperative Principle is that Quality Maxim and Manner Maxim are obeyed most frequently, but Quantity Maxim is violated most often; (3) that the distribution of the maxims of Politeness Principle is that Tact Maxim and Modesty Maxim are implemented the most frequently; (4) that cosmetic ads and skin-care ads emphasize on different components of woman ideology; (5) different linguistic devices are used to advertise the two types of beauty products. The qualitative analyses of the data show (1) that the subjects’ social backgrounds (in this case, education level and age) do affect their attitudes of persuasiveness toward advertisements; (2) that different advertising approaches do influence the subjects’ attitudes toward the advertisements; (3) that advertisements of different types of beauty products do not influence the subjects’ attitudes toward the advertisements no matter by Felicity Conditions, by Cooperative Principle, or by Politeness Principle. Based on the analyses given above, it is found that the subjects’ perception of persuasiveness does not match with that of the advertiser’s. To these potential consumers, those advertisements analyzed are not persuasive, which indicates that the advertisements fail to satisfy the consumer’s demands. It is suggested that the advertiser takes the consumer’s perspective to promote the persuasiveness of advertisements and the consumer’s acceptance of the commodities to be sold.

Victorian serial novels were bound with pages upon pages of advertisements marketing goods to readers, yet the relative inattention paid to this significant material component of the novel is surprising. This project explores the interaction between fictional narrative and commercial advertisements, and aims to recover the material context in which three Victorian novels—Bleak House, Middlemarch, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—were first published and read. These three case studies—a novel published in 20 monthly serial numbers, another packaged in the rare format of eight “books” in bimonthly installments, and the third published in a monthly magazine in three excerpts—are exemplary of a larger phenomenon in Victorian book production wherein fiction and commerce were inextricably bound. This project investigates the ways in which the advertisements can be reconceived as a significant element of the novel, mediating the reader’s experience of the text. The Bleak House chapter examines how the advertisements for hair products in the “Bleak House Advertiser” serve to highlight an aspect of Charles Dickens’s text about Victorian responses to the mass of new consumer goods and individuals’ desire to control the physical aspects of their world. The following chapter considers George Eliot’s (Mary Ann Evans’s) Middlemarch, finding that just as the narrator’s asides compel readers to attend to the temporal difference between the 1830s setting of the novel and the 1870s perspective of the serial edition, sewing machine advertisements in the advertising supplement of the novel serve to remind readers of their role as observers of past events. The examination of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’s) Huck Finn, as published in three excerpts in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, demonstrates that the magazine articles, the excerpts from Huck Finn, and the advertisements all engage in a project of unifying the nation and alleviating the physical and metaphorical wounds of war. The unity of the message emerges when the excerpts are read together with the many advertisements for wheelchairs and other such implements for disabled bodies. The dissertation ends with a chapter indicating the merits of further analysis and critical discussion of advertisements in the undergraduate literature classroom. / text

Social media has grown in importance as an advertising communication tool, and companies take advantages of this by using social media marketing to meet their marketing objectives. The research context in this study is chosen to be the social media Facebook, mainly since it is the biggest and most used social media in Sweden but also since Facebook offers companies many different commercial options. We detected a research gap, since there is a lack of theory on Facebook’s customized advertisements on a more specific context that is felt urge to buy impulsively. We could also identify a research gap since there is no study investigating how positive affect and felt urge to buy impulsively are affected by different characteristics in Umeå, Sweden or in the Facebook context among Umeå members. The purpose with this study is to investigate the effects of ad characteristics, personal consumption characteristics, and situational characteristics on positive affect and felt urge to buy impulsively. The characteristics consist of nine constructs; felt urge to buy impulsively, positive affect, promotional effect, atmospheric effect, impulse buying tendency, hedonic consumption, customized advertisement, time availability and money availability. To fulfill the purpose of this thesis, we conducted a quantitative study. In the quantitative study we conducted a web-based self-selected survey. The link to the survey was posted in four different Facebook groups and on our own Facebook pages. The link the survey was also distributed by flyers to randomly targeted people at Umeå University and Umeå center. By conducting a survey we were able to detect effects between the variables. When analyzing the results using regression analysis we concluded there are eight supported hypothesizes. The first multiple regression analysis showed that promotional effect, atmospheric effect, hedonic consumption tendency, customized advertisement and time availability had a significant positive effect on positive affect. In the second multiple regression analysis we concluded that hedonic consumption tendency and customized advertisement had a significant positive effect on felt urge to buy impulsively. The last regression analysis showed that positive affect had a significant positive effect on felt urge to buy impulsively. From the result we could confirm some of previous study’s findings and also contribute with new findings. We also suggest practical recommendations for companies using Facebook as an advertising channel, and how they can improve the advertising to make a good impression on the consumers.

This thesis is located at the intersection of several bodies of literature. While material exists on the histories of tourism, the automobile and the family, this combination of literature is previously uncharted territory in the history of British Columbia. By looking at the articles and advertisements published in newspapers and magazines, this work focuses on the dominant discourse surrounding the family and the automobile in postwar British Columbia. Conceptually, it is divided into two sections. The first discusses the role of the automobile in the postwar family, examining ways in which cultural producers framed it as a site of family togetherness and an essential component of modern fatherhood and masculine domesticity. This discourse correlated the automobile’s gendered dynamics with roles of modern parenthood and the experience of childhood, effectively blurring the distinction between the domestic and the public. The second section brings the family automobile into the natural environment, exploring ways in which the automobile and other outdoor technologies shaped the family’s relationship to nature. Through the gendered consumption of goods associated with the outdoors, cultural producers portrayed facilitation of the family’s access to the outdoors as a fundamental component of modern fatherhood.

Abstract This thesis attempts to contribute to both intermedial studies and F. Scott Fitzgerald scholarship by studying the text-illustration interplay in two versions of “The Rich Boy”. Intermediality, which pays close attention to media interactions, is a natural method to explore the word-image relations in these texts: the first version, published in Red Book Magazine in 1926, and an illustrated Spanish translation from 2012.             Lars Elleström’s definition of media as a combination of modes and modalities, plays a central role in the analysis, where I study how these interact in each text: For instance, in terms of the material and sensorial modalities, both illustrators try to simulate depth and convey the senses in a flat interface. In terms of the spatiotemporal modality, the anachronies in the time placement of Gruger’s images intensify the nostalgic mood in the text, while Ágreda’s adherence to the text’s time relays a certain autonomy. Both their treatments of space are often symbolic; thus, regarding the semiotic modality, the images are symbolic besides iconic. Each text is colored by the reading of the illustrator, who is also a reader and interpreter.             The theoretical framework also comprises of an approach to nostalgia: While Fitzgerald’s story is nostalgic per se, the illustrators display variations of nostalgia: Gruger’s work mirrors and enhances the nostalgic mood of the text, and while to a certain extent, Ágreda’s also does this, his nostalgia is most manifest in how he attempts to recreate a particular picture of the Jazz Age.