‘Discursive news values analysis’ of Iranian crime news reports: Perspectives from the culture

This article is concerned with ‘how’ newsworthiness is constructed linguistically/discursively in a sample of Iranian crime and misbehaviour reports. This is new as both linguistic analysis of ‘crime reports’ and the context of ‘Iranian journalism’ are among under-researched areas. One-month worth e...

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Published in:	Discourse & communication Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 437 - 460
Main Author:	Makki, Mohammad
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01-08-2019 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Crime News media Persian language Politics Qualitative research Quantitative analysis Sociocultural factors Iran DNVA discourse analysis crime Iranian journalism Crime reports news values sociocultural
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Summary:	This article is concerned with ‘how’ newsworthiness is constructed linguistically/discursively in a sample of Iranian crime and misbehaviour reports. This is new as both linguistic analysis of ‘crime reports’ and the context of ‘Iranian journalism’ are among under-researched areas. One-month worth editions of two Iranian/Farsi language newspapers were collected, and the data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively with reference to the analytical framework of Bednarek and Caple. While the quantitative analysis showed the construction of Eliteness as the most frequent news value in both newspapers, there were differences in the construction of news values between the newspapers. Qualitative analysis of the data also showed the construction of news values in line with the sociocultural values prevalent in the society as well as the possible role of state and political authorities.
ISSN:	1750-4813 1750-4821
DOI:	10.1177/1750481319842453