Grávidas, mães e a comunicação publicitária: uma análise semiótica das representações da gravidez e maternidade na publicidade contemporânea de mídia impressa

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Maria Collier de
• Orientador(a): Cesarotto, Oscar
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica
• Departamento: Comunicação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Semiótica; Mídia impressa; Mulher e publicidade; Gravidez; Maes; Maternidade; Mulheres na propaganda
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Communication; Semiotics; Print media; Women and advertising
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5287

This study investigates how pregnant women and mothers have been represented in advertisements in the magazines Crescer and Pais e Filhos. It deals with a discussion on how advertising constructs the imaginary of pregnancy and motherhood. Our objectives were to analyze the advertising signs used to represent, translate and sensitize pregnant women and contemporary mothers. To do this, we analyzed their verbal and visual languages in an effort to identify common elements and characteristics; in other words, images, messages, and sales appeals, as well as ideals, values, and cultural symptoms which materialize in advertisements and provide symbolic exchanges with their consumer audience. Our research corpus consisted of advertisements, published in Brazil (from 2006 to 2009) in the magazines Crescer and Pais e Filhos (top publications in the sector, according to subscription and market share data). The dissertation begins with a report on the first stage of the research, in which qualitative methodology was applied to carry out three group discussions with pregnant women and mothers, who were readers and potential readers of the magazines studied, in order to survey opinions regarding how these women felt as mothers and pregnant women and investigate how they perceived the advertisements published in these magazines. Next a semiotic analysis of the advertisements is presented, based on Peircean semiotics (Peirce and Santaella), with contributions from Psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan). Finally, the dissertation points to interpretations resulting from field study in dialogue with semiotic analysis