Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures

Ashley Riggs is an associate professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy).Lucile Davier is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva (Switzerland).

• PrefaceChapter 1. Making the case for studying constructive news across languages and culturesAshley Riggs and Lucile DavierChapter 2. Interest in constructive news in Europe: a comparative view from the media systemsJavier Serrano-Puche and María Fernanda Novoa JasoChapter 3. A multimodal analysis of constructive narratives in English–Chinese news for childrenSzu-Wen KungChapter 4. Multimodal strategies used by students in the transmedial reformulation of constructive news for Italian viewersPietro Luigi Iaia and Giordano LisiChapter 5. How constructive is the coverage of Canadians in debt? Analysis of constructive cues in English- and French-language newspapersPier-Pascale Boulanger and Chantal GagnonChapter 6. Solutions journalism in Portuguese, English, and Creole on a community news site in LisbonJessica Roberts and Daniela OliveiraChapter 7. Multimodal, multilingual, and constructive communication in Vatican NewsAnne O’Connor, Raluca Tanasescu, and Anna Beatriz Dimas FurtadoChapter 8. “¡Todos, todos, todos!”: (non)constructive coverage of the Pope and World Youth Day 2023 by the Global North and the Global SouthMárcia Dias Sousa