News Values as Constructed in Egyptian News Reports on COVID- 19: A Corpus Linguistic Study | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Article 164, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2025, Pages 705-742 PDF (1.3 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2025.398683.2245 | ||
| Author | ||
| ندا جمال* | ||
| المعهد العالى للغات مدينة الثقافة والعلوم 6اكتوبر | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study seeks to make a significant contribution to linguistic research related to COVID-19 news. As dozens of news were published daily tackling this unprecedented health crisis. The study adopts a corpus-driven approach to investigate how news values are constructed in a selected corpus of 100 news articles selected from Al Ahram Online (http://english.ahram.org.eg). The research not only examines the news values within these articles but also explores the specific linguistic resources and strategies that enhance the construction of these values. To achieve this, the study applies the Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) framework, as outlined by Bednarek and Caple (2017), which identifies and analyzes news values such as Eliteness, Impact, Negativity, Positivity, Personalization, Proximity, Superlativeness, Unexpectedness, Timeliness, and Consonance. The analytical process employs AntConc 3.4.0 software to generate keyword lists, concordance lines, and collocations, thereby providing a comprehensive analysis of the linguistic resources that construct the representation of news values in COVID-19-related news discourse. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| COVID- 19; News values; Corpus linguistics; Keyword list and Collocations | ||
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