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.

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 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


• 3. Conceptualising news values


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


• 5. Example analysis and concluding remarks


• PART II 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 III 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 IV 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