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Semiotički aspekti u analizi reklamnih poruka za automobile
Semiotic aspects in the analysis of car advertisments

Author(s): Ivana Jozić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Osijek
Keywords: semiotics; picture; text; advertisement

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the combination of text and picture in the advertisements for auto-mobiles with special accent on the semiotic interpretation of pictures as independent system with its own rules and special qualities. The contrastive analysis should show how both parts of the advertisement realize their informative, appellative and persuasive functi-on. The thesis of interdependence of text and picture in advertisements as texts with practical use is substantiated by the fact that both systems are only then completely meaningful when they interact in the communication process, which, although referred to as one-way communication, inevitably includes the recipient’s own interpretation.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 161-195
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Croatian