The Discourse of News Values How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness [Paperback]

The Discourse of News Valuesbreaks new ground in news media research in offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and images. Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed empirical analysis to introduce their innovative analytical framework: discursive news values analysis (DNVA). DNVA allows researchers to systematically investigate how reported events are sold to audiences as news (made newsworthy) through the semiotic resources of language and image.

With an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach,The Discourse of News Valuesanalyzes authentic news discourse (both language and images) from around the English-speaking world through three new case studies: one that analyzes newsworthiness around the topic of cycling/cyclists; another that analyzes news values in images disseminated by news media organizations via Facebook; and a third that focuses on news values in most shared news items.

Introducing readers to the possibilities of both DNVA and corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA),The Discourse of News Valuesbrings together corpus linguistics and multimodal discourse analysis in a stimulating and unique book for researchers in Linguistics, Semiotics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Media/Journalism Studies.

Table of contents

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction
1. The discourse of news values
2. Why study news values?
3. Key terms
4. Corpus assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA)
5. Summary and overview of chapters

PART I Theory
Chapter 2: News values
1. Journalism/Communications Studies
2. Linguistics
3. A new approach to news values

Chapter 3: Discursive news values analysis (DNVA)
1. The discursive construction of news values
2. Our list and labels