The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness

The Discourse of News Values breaks 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 Values analyzes 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 Values brings 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.


Author: Monika Bednarek, Helen Caple
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190653941

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2017

About the Author

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.

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