By Associate Professor Helen Caple

Book Chapters

Caple H, 2025, 'News Values (in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication)', in Nai A; Grömping M; Wirz D (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Edward Elgar Publishing, Netherlands

Caple H, 2022, 'A Balancing Act: Theorising compositional choices in photographs', in Caldwell D; Knox JS; Martin JR (ed.), Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics Developing Theory from Practice, Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic, pp. 41 - 54, https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/appliable-linguistics-and-social-semiotics-developing-theory-from-practice/ch2-a-balancing-act

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2020, 'A nation remembers: Discourses of change, mourning, and reconciliation on Australia Day.', in Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S (ed.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation On J. R. Martin’s Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discourses-of-hope-and-reconciliation-9781350116078/

Caple H, 2020, 'Image-centric practices on Instagram: Subtle shifts in footing.', in Stoeckl H; Caple H; Pflaeging J (ed.), Image-Centric Practices in the Contemporary Media Sphere, Routledge, London, pp. 153 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429487965

Caple H; Stoeckl H; Pflaeging J, 2020, 'Shifts towards image-centricity in contemporary multimodal practices: An introduction', in Stoeckl H; Caple H; Pflaeging J (ed.), Shifts Towards Image-centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429487965

Caple H, 2018, 'News Values and Newsworthiness', in The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.850

Caple H, 2018, 'Analysing the multimodal text', in Taylor C; Marchi A (ed.), Corpus approaches to discourse: a critical review., Routledge, London, pp. 85 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315179346

Caple H, 2017, 'Visual Media', in Cotter C; Perrin D (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language and the Media, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), London, pp. 230 - 243

Caple H, 2017, 'Visual media: The importance of visuals as partners in the news', in Routledge Handbook of Language and Media, pp. 230 - 243

Caple H, 2017, 'Results, resolve, reaction: Words, images and the functional structure of the genre of online match reports', in Caldwell D; Walsh J; Vine EW; Jureidini J (ed.), The Discourse of Sport: Analyses from Social Linguistics, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 209 - 227, https://www.routledge.com/The-Discourse-of-Sport-Analyses-from-Social-Linguistics/Caldwell-Walsh-Vine-Jureidini/p/book/9781138184688

Caple H; Bednarek M, 2015, 'Promotional Videos. What do they tell us about the value of news?', in Piazza R; Haarman L; Caborn A (ed.), Values and Choices in Television Discourse. A View from Both Sides of the Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 5 - 30, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Values-and-Choices-in-Television-Discourse/?K=9781137478467

Bednarek M; Caple H, 2015, 'Promotional Videos', in Values and Choices in Television Discourse, Springer Nature, pp. 5 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478474_1

Caple H, 2013, 'Composition and aesthetic value in press photography', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 91 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_4

Caple H, 2013, 'Evolving practices', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 202 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_8

Caple H, 2013, 'Introducing the multisemiotic news story', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_1

Caple H, 2013, 'News values and the multisemiotic news story', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 23 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_2

Caple H, 2013, 'Text-image relations in news discourse Part 1: Image as Nucleus', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 122 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_5

Caple H, 2013, 'Text-image relations in news discourse Part 2: Image as Satellite', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 142 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_6

Caple H, 2013, 'Text-image relations in news discourse Part 3: Sequences of images', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 175 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_7

Caple H, 2013, 'The multiple functionality of news images', in Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 55 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137314901_3

Caple H, 2010, 'Doubling-up: allusion and bonding in multi-semiotic news stories', in Bednarek M; Martin JR (ed.), New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Continuum, London, pp. 111 - 133

Caple H, 2010, 'What you see and what you get: the evolving role of news photographs in an Australian broadsheet', in Rupar V (ed.), Journalism and meaning-making : reading the newspaper, Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, pp. 199 - 220

Caple H, 2009, 'Multi-semiotic communication in an Australian broadsheet: a new news story genre', in Bazerman C; Bonini A; Figueiredo D (ed.), Genre in A Changing World, Perspectives on Writing, The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 243 - 254

Caple H, 2008, 'Intermodal relations in image nuclear news stories', in Unsworth L (ed.), Multimodal Semiotics: Functional Analysis in Contexts of Education, Continuum, London, pp. 125 - 138

Caple H, 2008, 'Reconciling the co-articulation of meaning between words and pictures: exploring instantiation and commitment in image-nuclear news stories', in Mahboob A; Knight N (ed.), Questioning Linguistics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 77 - 94

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