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

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.