A comunicação e o futebol: um olhar hermenêutico sobre os discursos publicitários da Cidade do Futuro

Abstract

In this study we address the Communication and Football, through the analysis and interpretation of symbolic forms and speeches contained in the Advertising Campaign "Me, Porto Alegre, a City of the Future". Face to the importance that the Brazilian people give to football, added to the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, we focus our attention on this global event and media which we consider relevant for studies in Social Communication. The study is organized based in the consolidated approach of Depth Hermeneutics (DH), Thompson (2002), through its proposal for a Triple Analysis: Socio-historical, Formal or Discursive and Interpretation/Reinterpretation. Being that in the stage of Formal or Discursive Analysis we rely on the support of Semiologic, in Barthes (1987, 1996), mediated by Qualitative Research directed by Bauer and Gaskell (2002). On The Theoretical Foundation we work with a priori categories: Stereotype, Myth, Power, and Culture, in Roland Barthes; Globalization, in John B. Thompson; and Sociolect, also in Barthes. In the analysis categories that emerged a posteriori were pointed, which indicated that the videos and their contexts contained something more than what was seen at first glance. The categories were selected: Repetition, in Calabrese; Sustainability in Almeida; Social Responsibility in Melo Neto and Froes, and Citizenship, based on Rousseau. The study revealed that the Advertising Campaign articulated their discursive strategy through conviction, playing with the ideas of past and future, and true and false, through the symbolic forms. The Communication has demonstrated the particularities of the advertising videos, of profound meanings along with their contexts, where discourses, permeated by symbolic values, intended to promote the recognition of the public, through the characteristics of the people called gaúcho . As well as symbolic forms, which represent, by means of aesthetics the idealization of a city ahead of its time - a City of the Future . We can also affirm that the Football is used as a strategy in this Communication Advertising Campaign, for the purpose of: gain support for the idea, win investors for the projects, customer loyalty electors and receive the world look to their actions.