The Language of Pictures in Print Media Advertising

Language: English

Published by Diplom.De, 2001

3838651995 / 9783838651996

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, University of Graz (Geisteswissenschaften, Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract:Today we observe a development in which the role of language is steadily decreasing whereas the impact of pictures is increasing. This goes hand in hand with a development in which information relies more and more on visual concepts. More and more language takes the part of explaining how to read the visual presentations, more and more language takes the part of providing the background information which is necessary to understand the meaning of the visual foreground.Kress and van Leeuwen (1998) argue that Today, we seem to move towards a decrease of control over language (e.g. the greater variety of accents allowed on the public media, the increasing poblems in enforcing normative spelling), and towards an increase in codification and control over the visual (e.g. the use of image banks from which ready-made images can be drawn for the constuction of visual texts, and, generally, the effect of computer imaging technology).Although we may be aware of this tendency, we have not been taught in school how to read visual concepts and so most of us share some degree of illiteracy concerning a critical reading of information presented by images. This is remarkable because we all agree about their influence on our lives but at the same time when we do not develop analytical tools for describing what kinds of strategies, what kinds of concepts are working in visual presentations of information. We tend to overlook the importance of visual concepts simply because we generally do not know enough about their code.This paper analyses photos and language which are parts of ads, which have definitely been designed for transferring messages because they have been made to advertise one specific product. Images and the text of advertisements never are casual products like family pictures. Although the photo in the family album is coded its coding is less elaborated than the coding of pictures in ads. We have to keep in mind that many people, experts in advertising, experts in public relations were involved in the process of designing an ad before we can look at the final result. This is why ads are definitely conceptually designed because they are meant to create a specific meaning in the viewer s mind. It is a truism that no visual concept, no photo of an ad was chosen by chance. Photographs and language of ads are more likely to have been carefully constructed and selected according to the meaning they are supposed to create. This is why the analysis of ads provides an extremely effective means for the deciphering of the constructive code behind them.A second important reason for the analysis of ads is that our present culture is a culture which is heavily influenced by ads. On television, in the cinema, in the newspaper, in videoclips, on walls, on cars; ads are surrounding us in contemporary society. To say it with the words of Guy Cook (1992):In contemporary capitalist society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using. Given this ubiquity, it is strange that many people are reluctant to pay attention to ads.Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents:1.Introduction51.1The importance of pictures51.2Reasons for the analysis of ads51.3Methodology62.Theory72.1Semiotics82.2Van Gogh and Critical Discourse Analysis92.3The creation of signs and their meaning102.4Coding and non - linear Reading ofPictures102.5Ve.…

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Title
The Language of Pictures in Print Media Advertising
Author
Wilfried Pichler
Publisher
Diplom.De
Publication year
2001
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3838651995
ISBN 13
9783838651996
Item weight
157 grams
Dimensions
210x148x8 mm

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