Discourse of News Values

<p><em>The Discourse of News Values </em>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.<br />With an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach <em>The Discourse of News Values </em>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.<br />Introducing readers to the possibilities of both DNVA and corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA) <em>The Discourse of News Values</em> 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.</p>