RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

TELEVISION

PrvoslavS. Plavšić

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE NEWS ON BELGRADE TELEVISION

Along with its other aspects, social communication has a clearly pronounced psychological aspect, and if it is carried out by means of language, which is most often the case, then study of the role of language can be approached from the psychological aspect as well. In studying social behaviour, and the factors determining it ог the forms in which it is expressed, contemporary social psychology necessarily takes linguistic aspects into account Ву a sociolinguistic approach we subsume the investigation of the heterogeneity of use of language (television’s) in society, which is determined by the nature of language itself, as well as the peculiarities of this form of social intercourse. Ву means of an interdisciplinary approach, sociolinguistics manages to follow the interrelationships and changes in linguistic and social structures, wherein it is assumed that linguistic phenomena аге socially-determined, that is, that there is a significant correlation between social and linguistic development Without entering into a discussion of the subject and scope of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, it is sufficient to note that television communication cannot be broached properly today without examining (its) language in the social environment This applies, of course, to all the different forms of communication, especially where the informative function of a TV programme is accentuated, which is precisely the case with news programmes as a whole.

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