The Discourse of News Values

Frequency of Verbs in Lifestyle Column in the Jakarta Post and the Relation to Text Characteristics: A Corpus-Based Analysis

“…News texts generally use present tense more frequently; past tense is used for some purpose, e.g., providing temporal information of the events (Bednarek & Caple, 2012). According to , news rarely use modal verbs compared to fiction or academic texts.…”

“…Previous corpus-based studies on newspaper texts reveal that verbs in news texts tend to be in the form of present tense and active voice is used more frequently over passive voice to achieve some purposes (Bednarek & Caple, 2012;Biber & Quirk, 2012). However, those studies examined the morphosyntactic aspects and did not specifically about the verb types.…”

“…With regard to verbs, there are some previous corpus-based studies on how verbs are acquired (Nordlund, 2008), how verbs are used in legal context (Denyer, 2003), how verbs are used by native and non-native speakers of English (Yilmaz & Ertürk, 2017), and how phrasal verbs are used (Zarifi & Mukundan, 2013). So far, the discussions on verbs in newspaper are limited to their morphosyntactic properties (e.g., tenses, voice, transitivity) (Bednarek & Caple, 2012;Biber & Quirk, 2012;Conrad & Biber, 2001). Recently, a study on how frequency of verbs in news section is influenced by the characteristics of the news text has been done (Oktavianti & Ardianti, 2019), resulting in verbal verb types (e.g., say) as the most frequent verb type in the text, in which is obviously in accordance with the nature of the text as a report of an event and others.…”

Mainstream Media in Contemporary Fluid News Environments: Brandcasting the News in the TV Genre of News Tickers

“…Bednarek and Caple's (2014) discursive approach to news values (more specifically, their Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA); Bednarek & Caple, 2017) investigates "how newsworthiness is construed and established through discourse" (Bednarek & Caple, 2012b, p. 104). According to the authors (Bednarek, 2016a(Bednarek, , 2016bBednarek & Caple, 2012bCaple & Bednarek, 2015), a discursive perspective views news values as a "quality of texts" (Caple & Bednarek, 2015, p. 13, emphasis in the original), and their analysis can allow us to "systematically investigate how these values are constructed in the different types of textual material involved in the news process" (Bednarek & Caple, 2012b, p. 104).…”

Book review: Daniel Perrin, The Linguistics of Newswriting

“…The study of news language and news discourse has long been a scholarly field of inquiry in journalism studies and some linguistically-based approaches to discourse analysis (see Bednarek and Caple, 2012, for an overview). However, most of these approaches focus on the analysis of news texts as objects, rather than on their dynamic production and reception processes.…”