Foray into analysis models for advertising image

Abstract

The protagonism of the image in the media benefits the disciplines that better control its mechanisms. Among them, Advertising stands out effortlessly because, in a moment when the communication sees its image dimension accentuated, this discipline emphasizes the power of the image to communicate and persuade under the cloak of a permanent seduction. Consequently, Advertising emerges in contemporary culture as a markedly imaginative discourse, capable of infecting all others (Ferreira, 2012), vulnerable to the seductive power of the image and a culture that defines itself from it. In this way, its association with Rhetoric, while “faculty of theorizing about what is appropriate in each case to convince” (Aristotle, 1355b), though inevitable, does not appear free of obstacles, especially in which regards the choice of the model to analyse the specificity of the advertising image. This article presents the semiotic-rhetorical models related to image analysis of Roland Barthes (1964), Durand (1964), Péninou (1973), Grupo μ (1987), Floch (1981), Sonesson (1993), Umberto Eco (1997), Martine Joly (1999) and José Saborit (1999).