Retoriken i estetiken : En retorisk analys av prisbelönta reklamannonser

• Main Authors: Larsson, Madeleine, Leong, Therése
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap 2011
• Subjects: printed advert; rhetoric; visual rhetoric; Guldägg; Clio Award; pathos
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-14358

This thesis is a qualitative study in which 12 award-winning printed adverts, awarded with either a Swedish “Guldägg” or an international Clio Award, have been analyzed from a rhetorical perspective. Visual rhetorics were used to analyze the adverts in order to expose the rhetorical concepts and to find out whether the rhetorical concepts represented in the Swedish adverts are the same concepts represented in the international adverts. One of the conclusions drawn is that pathos-arguments, a rhetorical concept where the senders allude to the emotions of the receivers, are the most prominent in both Swedish and international adverts, but are used in different ways. Another conclusion drawn is that the adverts are overall characterized by their messages not being explicit. This is a rhetorical concept being used in order to stand out in today’s media flow.