This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets.

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“This book is richly illustrated and provides a careful account of the tools available, effectively demonstrating how they can be applied, as well as how Caple has developed them to apply more closely to news images. … this is a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of news discourse, which Caple has rightly demonstrated as, for all intents and purposes, multimodal.” (Helan A. Sissons, Communication Research and Practice, Vol. 3 (1), 2017)

"[Caple's] knowledge base and experience make for some interesting research." - CHOICE

"By presenting a systematic analysis of press photographs and providing a set of useful tools for their interpretation, Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach successfully redresses the imbalance between words and images in news discourse studies, and its insightful account of text image relations, in particular, constitutes a timely and valuable contribution to the area of multimodal discourse analysis." - Discourse & Communication

"In this richly illustrated book, Helen Caple admirably combines professional know-how, analytical finesse, and theoretical insight." - Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark

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University of New South Wales, Australia

Helen Caple

About the author

Helen Caple is a Lecturer in Media, Communications and Journalism at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Her primary research interests centre on press photography and text-image relations. She is the co-author of News Discourse (with Monika Bednarek) and has also worked as a press photographer in the UK.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach
Authors: Helen Caple
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30100-9Published: 25 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33666-1Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31490-1Published: 25 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 237
Topics: Media Studies, Linguistics, general, Journalism, Media and Communication, Discourse Analysis, Communication Studies

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