ENRICHING THE MEANING WITH ASSOCIATIONS IN ADVERTISEMENTS: SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF TURKCELL FIBER ADVERTISING

Abstract

Advertisements have an important place in the strategic communication management of brands. In today's advertising approach, brands associate imaginary worlds with the lives of consumers and aim to create strong meanings of the product in consumers for the purpose of differentiation from competitors. Associations are created with the help of myths, various symbols and metaphors used in visual and linguistic elements in advertising. In this way, functions such as creating new meanings, transferring and enriching the meaning are performed. With the help of semiotics, besides denotations recognized at first glance in advertising messages, hidden connotations in the text that are not noticed at first sight can be analyzed. In this context, the aim of the study is to analyze the visual and linguistic analysis of the “Turkcell Fiber’den Ailelere Fiber Destek” advertisement and to reveal what kind of associations are used in order to build the minds of the consumers. In order to reveal the meanings in question, the expressions were deciphered by making use of the denotation / connotation distinction that Roland Barthes put forward. As a result of the research, it was found that the brand uses various connotations to enrich its power of meaning in the advertisement.