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. "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."--Publisher's description 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.--publisher's Website. List Of Tables -- List Of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Theory : -- 2. News Values -- 3. Discursive News Values Analysis -- Part Ii. Analytical Frameworks : -- 4. Language And News Values -- 5. Visuals And News Values -- Part Iii. Empirical Analysis : -- 6. What Is Newsworthy About Cyclists? -- 7. Images, News Values, And Facebook -- 8. 'all The News That's Fit To Share': News Values In 'most Shared' News -- Part Iv. Extensions : -- 9. Discursive News Values Analysis As An Opportunity For Diachronic And Cross-​cultural Research -- 10. Reflections -- Appendix -- References -- Index. Monika Bednarek And Helen Caple. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.