Uma colônia de gêneros anúncios

Abstract

This research aims at investigating a possible advertisements genres colony through the analyses of communicative purpose, supports and styles categories. In order to characterize the colony under analysis, I adopt Bhatia‟s theoretical and methodological proposal (1993; 2004). I also followed Bakhtin‟s ([1953] 2000), Carvalho‟s (1996), Marcuschi‟s (2003), Askehave & Swales‟s (2001) and Swales‟s (2004) conceptions, to further the development of this investigation. In order to carry out this research, a corpus composed by 72 printed texts was collected which is so distributed: 15 institutional advertisements, 15 classified advertisements, 12 funeral notes, 15 publicity advertisements and 15 publicity reviews. The adoption of Bhatia‟s (1993; 2004) methodology, and the analyses criteria, represented by the communicative purpose, supports and styles categories, has made possible the understanding of the advertisements genres colony phenomenon in which texts maintain a similarity/distinction relationship. On the basis of the mentioned criteria, and, in order to verify if they were part of the genres colony under analysis, nine text types were analysed. These were as follows: 1. publicity advertisements (from magazines), 2. publicity advertisements (from folders), 3. publicity advertisements (from outdoors), 4. institutional advertisements (from magazines), 5. institutional advertisements (from folders), 6. institutional advertisements (from outdoors), 7. funeral advertisements (from newspapers), 8. classified advertisements (from newspapers), 9. publicity reviews (from magazines). As a result of the analysis, the following advertisements genres were identified: publicity advertisement, classified advertisement, funeral advertisement and institutional advertisement. Finally, I opt not to close the advertisements genres colony and suggest its expansion.