The Discourse of News Values

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-065393-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in multimodal news discourse, offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive analysis of news values and the construction of newsworthiness. The book explores how the news is "sold" (made newsworthy) to audiences through the semiotic resources of language and image, providing a new analytical framework which can be used by other researchers in their own subsequent studies. It combines in-depth theoretical discussion with analyses of authentic news discourse (both language and images) from around the English-speaking world, including three empirical case studies: one that analyzes news values around the topic of cycling across different English-speaking cultures; one that analyzes images disseminated by news media organizations via Facebook; and a third that focuses on the 100 "most shared" news items.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bednarek

Bednarek, Monika

Caple, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of contents

- List of tables

- List of figures

- Acknowledgements

- PART I Introduction

- 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 II 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

- 3. Conceptualising news values

- 4. Context-dependency, preferred meaning and the target audience

- 5. Example analysis and concluding remarks

- PART III Analytical Frameworks

- Chapter 4: Language and news values

- 1. Introduction

- 2. Towards an inventory of linguistic resources

- 3. Combining news values and example analysis

- 4. Summary

- Chapter 5: Visuals and news values

- 1. Introduction

- 2. The relationship between images and news values

- 3. Visual resources in images

- 4. Other semiotic resources constructing news value

- 5. Front page news: An example analysis

- 6. Concluding remarks

- PART IV Empirical Analysis

- Chapter 6: What is newsworthy about cyclists?

- 1. Introduction

- 2. The corpus

- 3. Analysis of 'typical' news values

- 4. Analysis of news values around cyclists

- 5. Summary and conclusion

- Chapter 7: Image, news values and Facebook

- 1. Introduction

- 2. Social media and news feeds

- 3. Data and methodology

- 4. Results

- 5. Conclusion

- Chapter 8: 'All the news that's fit to share': News values in 'most shared' news

- 1. Introduction

- 2. Data and methodology

- 3. Verbal patterns

- 4. Visual patterns

- 5. Visual-verbal patterns

- 6. Conclusion

- PART V Extensions

- Chapter 9: DNVA as an opportunity for diachronic and cross-cultural research

- 1. Salacious Fiends and News from the Dead: Diachronic research

- 2. El terror yihadista, Terroralarm, terrordramat: Cross-cultural research

- 3. Concluding remarks

- Chapter 10: Reflections

- 1. 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. X?nwén jiàzhí, arzeshe khabari, Khabari Iqdaar (Chapter 9)

- 9. Concluding remarks

- Appendices

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.