Abstract

In this paper we analyse several television commercials shown on Spanish national TV channels. There are two different kinds of advertising slogans to increase credibility of the advertised products: spots which make reference to nmagic ingredientsn, which are subject to trends and designed to make the target audience fantazise about the characteristics of these products; and secondly, we detect a growing number of advertisements which make reference to the product having been scientifically tested. However, complaints by consumers' organisations and the scientific community are on the rise concerning the abusive use of scientific terrninology on television advertising, as well as the lack of scientific reality of the claims made in the commercials.En este trabajo se analizan una serie de anuncios emitidos por las cadenas de televisión generalistas españolas en las que se emplean dos tipos de eslóganes publicitarios para intentar otorgar credibilidad a los productos que se publicitan. Por una parte, se encuentran anuncios que aluden constantemente a ingredientes mágicos que periódicamente se ponen de moda y que hacen que el imaginario colectivo fantasee sobre las características de estos productos; y por otra parte, se detecta que cada vez es mayor el número de anuncios que aluden a eslóganes en los que se hace constar que el producto ha sido comprobado científicamente o testado clínicamente por determinados laboratorios. Sin embargo, cada año aumentan las denuncias de colectivos de consumidores y de asociaciones médicas por el mal uso que se hace de la terminología científica en los anuncios publicitarios y por los mensajes que transmiten, que en la mayoría de los casos no se corresponden con la realidad científica.

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