Analysis of intonation in news presentation on television

The effectiveness on the television communication is sustained on the handling of voice, which is the base of fundamental expression of the audio-visual contents. Consequently, the audience attention to the television message as well as understanding and assimilating of it, will depend on a correct and expressive use of voice. These reasons guarantee the necessity to make an empirical investigation about the prosody form in which the news broadcasters on television use voice. Therefore, the actual communication is based on the results of a study in order to determine the intonation in broadcasters on television. Overview There are not many empirical investigations about TV broadcaster’s intonation on television. Nevertheless, there is a wide bibliography in Spain which continuously referrers to the lack of effectiveness in the use of prosodic elements of journalists. Both experiments that have been carried out, and bibliographical references agree in signaling that there is a specific way of intonation of TV news which is, paradoxically, not the most appropriated, neither from a linguistic nor from a expressive point of view. In the presentation of news, journalists reproduce one singsong delivery pattern that represents the continuous repetition of a same structure: a circumflex intonation.