Author/Authors :
Kheirabadi، Reza نويسنده Faculty member of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) , , Keshvardoost، Azadeh نويسنده MA in General Linguistics from Islamic Azad University (science and research branch( ,
Abstract :
News values, the set of criteria which makes news out of events, are widely studied in media research and journalism and are of pivotal importance theoretically and empirically. Two Norwegian researchers, Galtung and Ruge, proposed a set of News Values in 1965 and then after, as time went by, some various set of News Values or News Criteria are presented by researchers from different perspectives and stand points. In this paper after reviewing the literature of news values studies in Post Galtung era, we hypothesize a group of linguistic News Values based on Grice Maxims. The results of this study show that news as the written or spoken representation of Language in a specific context observes the four maxims of Grice co-operative principle which are Quality, Quantity, Manner and Relevance maxims and we can categorize many of the Post Galtungian News Values, presented in recent years, within the presented Linguistic News Values. While reviewing the pivotal concept of news values, representing the linguistic set of news values proves that Linguistics and its related concepts potentially have many common points with media and journalism studies and interdisciplinary studies shed light on this relationship.
