The Discourse of News Values

Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Helen Caple is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• 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

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.