Estratégia de zombaria: o humor ressignificado

Abstract

With this work we study the transformation of the role played by pitchman in television commercials. For this, by further studies about the advertising through Predebon (2012) and advertising strategies, according to the concepts of Lupetti (2007), Silveira (2009) Propp (1992), who came to knowledge concentrated contributing in our analysis. We analyzed four television commercials aired on television Brazilian open between the month of August 2010 and August 2011, whose stories had their poster child in a different way from what they used to use. In our analysis, we seek to determine which strategies present in the narratives of these commercials are resignified to happen the transformation in the role of poster boy , with respect to their traditional role . At the end of this study we conclude that the advertising strategy resignified cases analyzed is the strategy of humor.