Abstract:
The research aimed to understand the signification of pets in film advertisements and the characteristics of pets comparing with the attributes of products in film advertisements for recognition the audiences who both raise and do not raise the pets. The concepts which are used to analyze this research consist of the ideas of animal communication, films advertising, semiotics, pictorial metaphor, and Jakobson's communication model. Textual analysis was conducted 10 sets of film advertisements during 2011-2013 and interviewed of the audiences in Bangkok who raise dogs and cats including the other audiences who do not.
The result of the study showed that 1) the signification of pet pictures in terms of animal communication consists of a) visual communication, b) auditory communication, and c) tactile communication. In terms of semiotics approach can be classified in to 5 categories; a) symbol, b) icon, c) index, d) binary opposition, e) pictorial metaphor. 2) The dual relationship between characteristics of pets and product attribute consists of a) agility, b) loyalty, c) protection, d) strength, e) happiness, f) touching, g) sobriety and h) curiosity.