A materialização midiática da brasilidade: a cobertura do Jornal Nacional sobre a Seleção de Futebol e a narrativa da identidade brasileira

Abstract

The proposal of this dissertation is to analyze in which manner the Jornal Nacional represents the brazilian national identity in the speech related to the Brazilian National Football Team and aportar evidence to assess the relevance of the hypothesis that television news uses of narratives essentialized and naturalizing on Brazilianness. The work takes the publications of the JN as an empirical sample during the week of the matches of the Brazilian National Football Team, in the period between June and November of 2008. Starting from the theoretical assumption that the identities (such as conceptualized in the tradition of cultural studies) are symbolic and narrative phenomena, we seek to identify which speeches are triggered by the broadcasting and through the methodologies of content analysis and speech analysis, pointing to the emphasis on the supposed qualities typical of brazilian soccer, treated as the embodiment of narrative dimensions associated with national identity.