Semoitics In Advertising

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CA 3 semoitics in advertisement Everyday we are surrounded by advertisements whether they are print or radio. In today's very technology relient world. It is near impossible to avoid some form of publicity or advertisement, whether it might be a pop-up ad while getting the news or the latest offer at the local shop come up while you are listening to music. The main purpose of advertisement is to sell something to people, but companies not only sell a product they sell their brand and image as a more desirable and happier company. With this essay i am going to analyse a print advertisement in semiotic terms and explore how the advertisement is constructed. The advertisement i will be analyzing is a add from the irish times magazine for a renault …show more content…

It puts the focus all around the reader as the try to place the reader into the advertisement. We notice this as the signifier of the ad of a man holding a woman intimately beside the car. “Nothing is a sign unless interpreted as a sign” - Peirce [1]The signified of this ad from a man's point of view is that if you have this car you get this beautiful woman as the woman's dress is the same color as the car and shows that they are a pairing together. For a woman it could almost be that having this car you can have this romantic date in paris. You cannot see the man's face so the beauty of the man will be inserted by the readers. This is the readers connotation towards the ad. Through there lived culture that they will insert what a man's beauty is to them as the woman reader cannot see the man's face so will input there connotation of beauty onto the man. That if the reader was to buy this product that this image will come through for …show more content…

On the inside of the advertisement. Using terms such as “seductive styling, was true love, head over heels.” This enforces the thought of love and romance with the car very blantly. Another phrase is “long term relationship”. They are not talking about the woman in the picture they are talking about the car. You can argue that the car will never break down deceive you and will not cheat on you. This shows the woman and man are not that important in the advertisement but they are very indexical of getting the theme of romance with the car across. With human nature we are always looking for love and for the thing we love to love us back. And with this ad it indicates that this car is a romance that you can have with no

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