Potenzialità glottodidattiche della comunicazione pubblicitaria

The aim of the present article is to shed the light on educational aspects which can be obtained by the exploration of an authentic, advertising material. The analysis attempts to demonstrate how communicative and linguistic characteristics, argumentative patterns, rhetorical figures and cultural aspects, which constitute the complex structure which is advertising message, convey values, stereotypes, social and linguistic tendencies. All of the above are conceived in order to complete the goals of persuasion. For the teacher, it is a rich, authentic and precious resource which gives the student the opportunity to extend his abilities and skills, to face and approach a new, linguistic and cultural context