As possibilidades educativas na análise de metáforas no gênero anúncio publicitário, à luz da teoria da linguística cognitiva

Abstract

The present work of action research has as general objective to reconstruct the concept of metaphor brought by the students of a ninth grade class of elementary school, through the application of a didactic unit, using the advertising genre. The activities of action research were based on a cognitive view of metaphor and dealt with the structural relations of metaphor and its meaning. In this theory the metaphor ceases to be seen as a literary resource and becomes part of everyday use (Lakoff and Johnson 2002). According to Abreu (2010), the metaphor has an emotional aspect and strong argumentative power, so it is very present in the advertising language. The commercials can be used as a didactic strategy to develop and to increase the criticity of the students on the consumer society in which they live. The didactic unit developed was applied in the 9th year of a state school of Santa Maria (RS), with duration of approximately 20 hours / class, in the curricular component of Portuguese Language. Through analysis of concepts and interpretations of verbal and visual metaphors, students (re) constructed their concepts of metaphor and, at the same time, developed a critical look at the advertisements that are so present in our daily life and that influence the choices in the moment of consumption, in addition to reflecting on our consumer society (BAUMAN, 2007). By awakening students' criticality by analyzing the metaphors present in the commercials, they have become more critical and aware citizens of their choices.