Um segredo que se espalha: consumo e estratégias de produção discursivas de O Segredo

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Abujamra, Marisa Baruch Portela
• Orientador(a): Carrascoza, João Luiz Anzanello
• Banca de defesa: Hoff, Tania Marcia Cezar , Oliveira, Paulo Roberto Nassar de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Associação Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa em Comunicação e Práticas de Consumo da ESPM
• Departamento: Comunicação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: comunicação publicitária; consumo; discurso; autoajuda
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: advertising communication; consumption; discourse; self-help; mediatic
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.espm.br/handle/tede/139

The self-help literature has become, in contemporary times, a sales phenomenon, with the spread of a varied amount of products and intense movement of advertisements in the media space. In this universe of self-help titles, the book The Secret is considered a sales success of the genre. Launched in 2007 in Brazil, by Ediouro, it has occupied for a long time the bestseller lists and caused a major development of products that carry the name and seal of The Secret, transforming itself into what we call franchise. The advertising of these products through the covers of books, DVDs, CDs, sales websites, Facebook, etc. is considerable, just observe, when entering a bookstore, that books of this genre occupy the best shelves. Thus, this research investigates the logic and production strategies of advertising discourses of The Secret in the different media where they circulate through the study of the consumer society, having consumption as a cultural practice as referential. Our aim is to understand how the advertising discourse has been used at the service of communication, intending to map the spaces of circulation of these discourses, to identify how they develop their models, and to observe the rhetoric in its discursive composition. In a mediatic society like ours, The Secret and its outspreads are transformed into cultural products under the logic of this cultural industry, being offered for consumption and producing senses through advertising discourses, which requires attention and effort to understand the dynamics and sociocultural impacts of communication processes and consumption practices. The French Discourse Analysis and the rethoric studies articulated to communication studies will be the structure for the theoretical and methodological grounding that permeates the approach to the advertising discourse, as disclosure process in the consumer society. Our clipping for the research are the covers and back covers of the books, book sales websites, Facebook and Twitter. The results will be presented through an analysis that must propose the interlacements between the theoretical constructs and empirical research.