This diploma thesis discusses modern myths that appear in the selected audiovisual commercials. The commercials are part of the advertising campaign for a Galaxy Note 3 device produced by Samsung Company. The campaign was launched in the fall of 2013 and continued through the spring 2014. As Samsung is also one of the official partners of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, some of the analyzed content is dedicated to the relationship between the two. Semiotics and marketing communication provide a broad theoretical framework for the later semiotic analysis. The chapter on semiotics discusses the modern perspective on the sign theory, offering Ferdinand de Saussure's and Charles Sanders Peirce's points of view. The main focus of the thesis is, however, on the process of the so-called secondary signification and modern myths creation introduced by Roland Barthes in his Mythologies. The marketing communication chapter then introduces several theoretical starting points in the field, various marketing models, and the communication mix with the focus on advertising, its components and potential psychological effects. In the final part, selected commercials are introduced along with the plot description and a semiotic analysis of the environment, characters, individual elements, images, colors and the...

This thesis focus on semiological analysis of selected corporate logo. Logo is visual identity of brand. Visual identity is a part of corporate identity. Logo is a conjunction of graphic design and marketing strategies. This thesis is based on semiotics theories, although incorporating marketing basics and marketing semiotics take on this problem. Within the practical part the logo analyzed using denotation and connotation. Researched brand is US coffee chain Starbucks, which is one of the most successful coffee companies worldwide. Their corporate logo went through a long development and its strikingly successful.

This thesis focus on semiological analysis of selected corporate logo. Logos are part of the corporate identity and they are surrounding us all the time. Our society is overloaded with logos and that is main reason why logo has to be well remembered, easily recognized and connected with the brand. Logo is a conjunction of graphic design and marketing strategies. From the semiological point of view, this thesis is based on Roland Barthes's theories, although incorporating marketing basics and marketing semiotics take on this problem. Within the practical part the logo analyzed using denotation, connotation and myth. Researched brand is US coffee chain Starbucks, which is one of the most successful coffee companies worldwide. Their corporate logo went through a long development and its strikingly successful. Keywords logo, semiology, marketing semiotics, graphic design, corporate identity, myth, conotation, denotation

This thesis focus on semiological analysis of selected corporate logo. Logos are part of the corporate identity and they are surrounding us all the time. Logo is visual identity of brand. Our society is overloaded with logos and that is main reason why logo has to be well remembered, easily recognized and connected with the brand. Logo is a conjunction of graphic design and marketing strategies. This thesis is based on semiotics theories, although incorporating marketing basics and marketing semiotics take on this problem. Within the practical part the logo analyzed using denotation and connotation. Researched brand is US coffee chain Starbucks, which is one of the most successful coffee companies worldwide. Their corporate logo went through a long development and its strikingly successful.

Our thesis is dealing with case of reportage photography and medial sharing of our choosen visual image. We have choosen an image of syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi from 2015, whose photo is refering the problem of refugee crisis in Europe. The thesis is focused on semiotic approach of selected photographies, which are showing the same picture from different perspectives. In our case is perspective very important part of thesis, because these photographies are very questionable on ehtical principes. Therefore, we are also focused on the way, how the media deal with this issue. Our thesis points the signs of reportage photography and also monitor their changes, which depends on the medium, title, perex and composition of words completing photography.We are also focused on contextual framework of photography in choosen media. The secondary objective of our thesis is the comparision of results of analysis of selected picture published in individual selected media and comparision of differences in interpretation and photography context. Thesis is primaly based on theoretical concepts of Roland Bathers on specific visual sharing of selected media. Monitored indicators are the concepts of denotation, conotation and myth, while we are focused on connection between text and image and interpretation in selected...

This Magister thesis is an attempt at analysis of ten chosen dance-pop songs released in the year of 2013 using semiotic method. The purpose of this thesis is to find out whether the statement that this genre is isomorphic is right or wrong. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part we will define the term popular music and its evolution. Then we will focus on functioning of semiotic method in the musical analysis and communication of music. The second part will be dedicated to semiotic analysis itself where we will analyze the structure and lyrics of chosen dance-pop songs and we especially will focus on the most used strings of musemes and intertextual quotation of other popular records. Keywords: dance-pop, semiotics of music, musical patterns, communication models in music, museme, strings of musemes, intertextuality

(in English) This dissertation paper deals with the transformation of the relationship letter and image in the Czechsoslovakian art in the 1950s and 1960s, interpreted from the point of view of the cultural and social events not as the history of art, but history of reality representation. The objective of the paper is to create a more complex view of various levels of integration of letter and image in domestic environment, so it approaches the phenomena of letter and image from a specific interpretation point of view based on three main lines. Mapping the phenomena of letter and image in the context of that period in Czechoslovakia, which preceded work structuralizing, was the base of the first interpretation line which bases the core of work on four social "activators", which, in the mind of an artist, activated the need to incarnate letter and image. Since the subject of the paper is the letter as a material manifestation of the language, the second interpretations line follows the purposeful modification of the language structure between the signifiant and signifié, which occurs in visual imaging. The third interpretation line puts the first two into a broader, aesthetic and philosophical context due to which, more complex language structures entering the art of work can be identified. Using...

Magistro baigiamojo darbo objektas – su maistu susijusios kultūrinės reikšmės maisto reklamose. Darbo tikslas – teoriškai nustatyti reklamoje kuriamas su maistu susijusias kultūrines reikšmes ir jas išanalizuoti remiantis semiotinio metodo instrumentarijumi. Darbo uždaviniai: aptarti semiotikos mokyklas – jų raidą, pagrindines kryptis, svarbiausius autorius, metodo instrumentarijų, atskleisti pagrindines sąvokas; pristatyti reklamą, jos raidą, pagrindinius principus ir vaidmenį šiuolaikinėje vartotojų visuomenėje, atskleisti semiotinį požiūrį į reklamą; ištirti maisto funkcijas šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje ir su maistu susijusias reikšmes skritinguose kultūros sluoksniuose; taikant semiotinį metodą, išanalizuoti, kaip maisto reklamose kuriama kultūrinė reikšmė, kokie socialiniai ir kultūriniai kodai veikia reikšmės kūrime. Išanalizavus mokslinę literatūrą, atskleista, kad semiotikos modelis yra tinkamas kultūrinių reikšmių kūrimui reklamoje tirti. Pristatant su maistu susijusias kultūrines reikšmes, analizuota sociologijos, antropologijos, kultūros studijų ir kitų mokslo sričių literatūra, o jai susisteminti panaudotas Geerto Hofstede‘o daugiasluoksnis kultūros modelis (Hofstede, 1984). Maistas atlieka diferenciacijos funkciją tarp kultūrų ir kultūros viduje – tarp jos skirtingų sluoksnių, o kai kuriose kultūrose – ir tarp individų. Šiuolaikinėje modernioje visuomenėje jis taip pat yra privačią ir viešąją erdvę, o kartu – ir moteriškąją bei vyriškąją sritį skiriantis elementas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of this study is food-related cultural meanings in food advertising. This study attempts to theoretically establish the food-related cultural meanings that are being created via advertisements and to analyze them using the instrumentation of the semiotic method. In this study two main semiotic schools are introduced, including their development, main directions, most significant authors, the instrumentation of the method, main concepts that will be used. There has been a concept of advertising as such analyzed, also its development, main principles and the role it plays in a consumer society. The functions of food in a contemporary society and food-related meanings in different cultural layers have been investigated. It was investigated both how food advertising creates the cultural meaning and what social/cultural codes work in this process by using the semiotic method. The analyzed scientific studies show that the semiotic model is suitable for exhibiting the creation of cultural meanings in advertising. In order to examine the food-related cultural meanings, various works of sociology, anthropology, culture and other fields of science were taken into account. The findings of those works were systematized using the Geert Hofstede’s model (Hofstede, 1984). Food separates both the cultures and layers or individuals in a culture from each other. In the contemporary society, food is a marker of private and public spaces, as well as feminine and masculine fields. Food... [to full text]