Prostitutas reconfiguradas: artimanhas da marca Daspu na visibilidade dos meios impresso e digital

Abstract

This research s objective is to investigate the ways by which the modes of presence of Daspu s prostitutes figures are being restructured in the national journalistic communication under the impact of the homonymous fashion brand s website. It s about questioning if there were, since the website s appearance, any changes in the sense production of the prostitutes simulacrua they were figurativized by the brand in the same way they were made present in the current journalistic press. Our main hypothesis is that the presence of Daspu s prostitute figure would have promoted a change in the social visibility of the prostitutes linked with the brand in journalistic press. The theoretical references adopted were the postulates of Greimas semiotic theory. Through them we understand Daspu s prostitutes figures as semantic configurations that are discursively reiterated in audio-verbal-visual texts in the institutional brand s website and the journalistic texts that reverberate them. We also adopt Landowski s notion of simulacrum that defines it as the set of traces (linguistic or not) pertinent for a signification assignment installed by an addresser in a text, so it can be apprehended by an addressee. The syntaxic and semantic determinations held between addresser and addressee contribute to create a prostitute image that this partners send one another in the communication act. The research corpus gathers Daspu brand s institutional website, accessible at www.daspu.com.br and a set of reports extracted from different sections of Folha de S. Paulo s newspaper that show Daspu s prostitutes simulacra manifestations in the period between January 2005 and December 2010. The selection of such variety of reports aims to offer subsidies for the investigation of different types of simulacra build over the same basis of values as the referred website. We therefore infer that the senses produced are re-enunciated between press and digital medias and not only enunciated from the second one to the first