Introducing a Discursive Approach to News Values

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.05.005

Abstract

Abstract: This paper intends to introduce a discursive approach to the study of news values. It first reviews previous approaches to news values in the field of journalism and communication studies; then it focuses on news values and news language. The newly introduced discursive approach is subsequently applied to examine news values as discursively constructed two cases studies. One case examines the construction of news values in a specialized corpus of news reporting on bushfires in Australia; and the other case examines the construction of news values in the coverage of the Eastern Star Accident in the Guardian and China Daily. The affordances and constraints of the discursive approach are discussed and suggestions for future research are recommended.

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H319

HUAN Changpeng. Introducing a Discursive Approach to News Values[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2016, 16(05): 45-51.

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