This dissertation proposes to analyze comparatively the semiotic visual aspects
of the announcements of vehicles in billboards of the decade with
announcements in contemporary billboards and its relation with the verbal text.
In order to do so, the specific objectives are: to identify the visual semiotic
features of advertisements in the 1960 and in contemporary ads from the Visual
Design Grammar (GDV), to verify the status relationship between verbal / written
text and imagery of 60's billboard ads and contemporary billboard ads and reflect
on the role of the image in the 1960s ads and contemporary ads. Thus, a
theoretical study situated in the field of the foundations of the genre and centered
in the dialogical perspective of Bakhtin (2002) was constructed. A reflection on
the characteristics, the compositional organization and historical evolution of the
ad genre was carried out. Subsequently, an investigation was made into the
history of the billboard. For the brief study on the Outdoor as support for
multimodal genres, we tried to reflect on the support in the textual perspectives,
by Marcuschi (2003); Discourse Analysis, by Maingueneau (2012) and Sociorhetoric, by Bonini (2003). Then, to reach the research objective, reflections on
the status of the image-text relationship system, by Martinec and Salway (2005),
reflections on the text-image relationship from Santaella (2012) were made and
a a study of multimodality that is situated in the field of the foundations of social
semiotics from the works of Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and Van Leeuwen
(2005). The methodology adopted was based on a descriptive and qualitative
study. To do so, 20 ads were selected on 60's billboards and 20 ads on
contemporary billboards. Of these 20 ads, a qualitative cut was made of 7 ads in
billboards in the 60s and 7 ads in contemporary billboards. During the analysis,
in addition to significant interactions with the observer, multimodal advances in
contemporary advertisements were perceived. Significant changes in the status
relationship were still noted, since contemporary ads showed a preference for
dominance of the image over the verbal text. As for the roles between verbal /
written and imaginary text on billboards of the 60s and on contemporary
billboards, the images of contemporary advertisements had expressive unequal
image-text relations, since the image presented superior status, that is, the image
was more informative in relation to the verbal text. Thus, the ads had a significant
preference for dominance of the image in relation to the verbal text.