Human, too Human: On emotions and masculinity

Abstract

This article analyzed four advertisements of Veja magazine 2005 (March edition), based on Social semiotics and multimodality, in which men of different ages and context appeared as represented participants. In a social semiotic perspective, the aim of the paper was to identify the meaning potentials expressed by different interpersonal semiotic modes, related to emotional contents. We have proposed a different analytical perspective of the emotion sign creating categories of multimodal analyses, which complemented those already, available in the literature (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). The results revealed the advertisements as a product of the engagement at hegemonic masculinity based mainly on power and lack of emotions.