O gênero anúncio: uma análise multimodal e semiolinguística da construção argumentativa

Abstract

This research examines the relation between verbal and nonverbal argumentation in the construction of the advertisement. To verify the entanglement between the verbal and visual semiosis, we used two theories that conceive the act of language as a testimony of the social and cultural practices of a group: the social semiotics (Kress, Van Leeuwen, 2006; KRESS, 2010) along with multimodality and semiolinguistics (Charaudeau, 2008). The present research had the following steps: analysis of argumentative device (Charaudeau, 2008) to investigate the performance of verbal and/or visual at each stage of the device; verification of the interactive meanings of visual composition (KRESS, van Leeuwen, 2006) and its relation to the purpose of convincing and seducing the reader; and finally, the meaning of composition analysis (Kress, Van Leeuwen, 2006) of the advertising text to see how the text is structured in order to build the argument of the advertisement. For the analysis of the study subject, we formed a sample of 20 ads of tourism in Ceará extracted from printed magazines specialized in tourism and chose the methodological procedures advocated by the theories mentioned (we united the two theories) and by the methodology of scientific research. The survey results showed greater presence of verbal language in the proposition of the device argumentative (Charaudeau, 2008) and the importance of image in the persuasion stage of the same device. The analysis of the interactive meaning of the visual elements, we found a regularity of images offered as objects of contemplation from a social distance social and an attitude of engagement with the reader. In the meaning of the composition of the ads, we noticed a predominance of the composition Ideal/Real working the promise of the product in terms of ideal and the possibility of its realization in the Real. About salience, we found the pictures as the most evident items in the sample and in the frame, we observed that the elements of the ad are connected and integrated by weak dividing lines and the repetition of colors and shapes. Finally, the data shows that entanglement between the verbal and visual languages for the construction of argumentation in the text occurs in a strategically planned around the advertisement, in order to take advantage of the significant benefits of each semiosis and the junction between the language for persuasion and seduction of the audience.