Banca de DEFESA: LUISA CARVALHO DE ABREU E LIMA

THE LANGUAGE OF TELEVISION NEWS: A STUDY ON ITS WAYS OF ORGANIZATION FROM THE MAIN TELE NEWS NEWS ON THE NETWORK GLOBE.

Language. Semiotics. Television news. Teaching. Grammar of TV news

This thesis aims to identify from a semiotic perspective a Grammar of Television News, encouraged by a debate over Telejournalism as a discipline and research field. Considering television news as text (a content manifested in different expression substances), this study seeks to recognize and describe its inner components, which are based on the relations they have with one another, including new forms and functions due to the increasing use of hypertext systems in journalism. The description of TV news’ elements and how these are articulated correspond to what we call, in a broader sense, the grammar of TV news. To highlight this grammar we start from the analysis of the four main newscasts from Rede Globo, the biggest TV station of Brazil: Bom Dia Brasil (BDBR), Jornal Hoje (JH), Jornal Nacional (JN) and Jornal da Globo (JG), in samples taken from February 20 and March 31 of 2015, totaling 146 editions compiled from 40 days of recording, as well as exploratory observation during the research. From the analysis, this study points to a possible grammar of television news, in which are identified and described three basic categories (the articulators, the news forms and supporting elements), reinforcing the existence of a system which presides over the construction of the newscast whose explanation aims to assist students, teachers and professionals in learning, teaching and using TV news language for better management of their organization modes and therefore enhancing TV news products. The configuration of this work and its achieved results would not have been possible without language sciences, an essential field for research and teaching improvement.