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The use of metaphors and its impact on the evaluation of advertisements in Czech advertising competitions
Wachtlová, Nikola ; Kaderka, Petr (advisor) ; Mrázková, Kamila (referee)
In this bachelor thesis I present a research based on cognitive understanding of a metaphor as a tool, the aim of which is to structure reality perception according to its correspondence among metaphoric domains. I extend upon empirical research papers which prove that the presence of a metaphor and its type has a positive impact on the evaluation of advertisements. To my acknowledge, these findings have not been confronted with Czech cultural matter yet. In this paper, I analyse Czech advertisements nominated for a domestic advertising competition, the results of which I consider as one of the means to rate advertisements. Altogether, this thesis contains an analysis of nineteen advertising campaigns which participated in the Creative Awards competition in categories Print and Outdoor and which were placed on the first, second or third place in the years 2016 and 2017. I examine the correlation between the presence of a metaphor and the placement of the advert in the competition. I determine the absence or presence of metaphor and, appositely, also its type in dependence on the visual presence of metaphoric domains and the semiotic mode in which the domains occur; further, I propose an interpretation of correspondences between domains of the metaphoric transfer. Despite expectations, the analysis...
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