The Discourse of News Values

Monika Bednarek is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. In recent years, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (2013) and a FRIAS Senior Fellow/Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany (2015-2016). She has published widely in media linguistics and corpus linguistics.Helen Caple is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests centre on news photography, text-image relations and the construction of news values in images. She is currently exploring the role of citizen photography in contemporary journalism, and has published widely in the area of photojournalism and social semiotics.

• Table of contentsList of tablesList of figuresAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction1. The discourse of news values2. Why study news values?3. Key terms4. Corpus assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA)5. Summary and overview of chaptersPART I TheoryChapter 2: News values1. Journalism/Communications Studies2. Linguistics3. A new approach to news values Chapter 3: Discursive news values analysis (DNVA)1. The discursive construction of news values2. Our list and labels3. Conceptualising news values4. Context-dependency, preferred meaning and the target audience 5. Example analysis and concluding remarksPART II Analytical Frameworks Chapter 4: Language and news values1. Introduction2. Towards an inventory of linguistic resources3. Combining news values and example analysis4. Summary Chapter 5: Visuals and news values1. Introduction2. The relationship between images and news values3. Visual resources in images4. Other semiotic resources constructing news value5. Front page news: An example analysis6. Concluding remarksPART III Empirical AnalysisChapter 6: What is newsworthy about cyclists?1. Introduction2. The corpus3. Analysis of 'typical' news values4. Analysis of news values around cyclists5. Summary and conclusionChapter 7: Image, news values and Facebook1. Introduction2. Social media and news feeds3. Data and methodology4. Results5. ConclusionChapter 8: 'All the news that's fit to share': News values in 'most shared' news1. Introduction2. Data and methodology3. Verbal patterns4. Visual patterns5. Visual-verbal patterns6. ConclusionPART IV ExtensionsChapter 9: DNVA as an opportunity for diachronic and cross-cultural research1. Salacious Fiends and News from the Dead: Diachronic research2. El terror yihadista, Terroralarm, terrordramat: Cross-cultural research3. Concluding remarksChapter 10: Reflections1. From little things, big things grow (Chapter 1)2. Surveying the field: It's a jungle out there (Chapter 2)3. Situating our own approach to news values: Which corner of the jungle do we inhabit? (Chapter 3)4. The discourse of news values (Chapters 4 and 5)5. Case Study 1: 'Pedaling' a critical, topic-based approach to DNVA (Chapter 6)6. Case Study 2: DNVA and the digital disrupters of social media (Chapter 7)7. Case Study 3: Combining DNVA and CAMDA (Chapter 8)8. Xinwén jiàzhí, arzeshe khabari, Khabari Iqdaar (Chapter 9)9. Concluding remarksAppendicesReferencesIndex

"Clearly written, rich in examples, and meticulous in its scholarship, this book introduces state of the art methods of news research and extends the linguistic analysis of news and news values to visual and digital news. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in media studies and discourse analysis alike."--Theo van Leeuwen, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney"Continuing a large multidisciplinary research project on news discourse, Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple's present study applies a unique combination of discourse analysis, semiotics, multimodal analysis and corpus linguistics in the study of news values. Both in theoretical and in practical analytical terms, and with concrete case studies, also of social media, they thus offer explicit and systematic insight into the criteria that define what is news. Theirbook also offers an excellent methodological introduction, for students of language, discourse and communication, into advanced methods of corpus-assisted multimodal analysis of the discourse and imagesof the news."--Teun A. van Dijk, Professor of Discourse Studies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona"This is a timely, well-referenced and well-written book which fills a gap in the literature. The approach taken is up to date in terms of methods used, and covers a wide range of news media types from around the globe. The authors have picked interesting case studies and have an engaging writing style. It offers a significant original contribution."--Paul Baker, Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University"In their timely, groundbreaking paperback, Bednarek (University of Sydney) and Caple (Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow) provide in-depth research into the ways the news media industry creates newsworthiness and value through text and imagery. Through excellent interdisciplinary empirical research and their unique analytical model DNVA (discursive news value analysis), the authors challenge traditional assumptions about news value and the ways mediaorganizations and their representatives market contemporary events by giving them newsworthiness and economic value through the creative interplay of language and imagery...Oriented to researchers andprofessional readers with expertise or specialty in areas such as linguistics, critical discourse, semiotics, communications, and journalism and media studies, the book is both thought provoking and a significant contribution to various fields of study." --.R. Kahn, University of Cincinnati, Choice"Overall, this book breaks new ground and makes an original contribution to the field by offering (a) a new theoretical approach to the study of discursive construction of news values, (b) a comprehensive analytical framework for linguistic and visual analysis of news values, and (c) a range of corpus techniques and tools that can generate well-grounded findings. The approach and findings also bear pedagogical implications by informing the teaching and learning of journalistic semiotic practices. Hence, this well-organized and clearly written monograph is recommended for both emerging and established researchers who are engaged in discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, and corpus linguistics, as well as for journalism educators." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly