Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures

by Ashley Riggs (Editor), Lucile Davier (Editor)

Overview

Constructive news is an alternative to the negativity of if-it-bleeds-it-leads journalism but still unfamiliar to some audiences and still relatively under-researched, particularly by news translation scholars. And yet, it is “done” across cultures and, therefore, languages. This innovative book contributes to filling that research gap and raising awareness of the phenomenon by showcasing cross-cultural research on constructive news, including in the Global South – a region that has traditionally received less scholarly attention than the Global North.

 Constructive news is resolutely multimodal, and so a number of chapters analyse it from that perspective. The chapters also tackle such topics as audience attitudes, service to the local community, pedagogy, financial news, and religious news. This book will appeal to journalism studies and translation scholars, applied linguists, lecturers, journalists, editors, and members of the public who consume, study, or teach news but are looking for alternatives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032849058
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/20/2025
Series:	The IATIS Yearbook
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Preface

 

Chapter 1. Making the case for studying constructive news across languages and cultures

Ashley Riggs and Lucile Davier

 

Chapter 2. Interest in constructive news in Europe: a comparative view from the media systems

Javier Serrano-Puche and María Fernanda Novoa Jaso

 

Chapter 3. A multimodal analysis of constructive narratives in English–Chinese news for children

Szu-Wen Kung

 

Chapter 4. Multimodal strategies used by students in the transmedial reformulation of constructive news for Italian viewers

Pietro Luigi Iaia and Giordano Lisi

 

Chapter 5. How constructive is the coverage of Canadians in debt? Analysis of constructive cues in English- and French-language newspapers

Pier-Pascale Boulanger and Chantal Gagnon

 

Chapter 6. Solutions journalism in Portuguese, English, and Creole on a community news site in Lisbon

Jessica Roberts and Daniela Oliveira

 

Chapter 7. Multimodal, multilingual, and constructive communication in Vatican News

Anne O’Connor, Raluca Tanasescu, and Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado

 

Chapter 8. “¡Todos, todos, todos!”: (non)constructive coverage of the Pope and World Youth Day 2023 by the Global North and the Global South

Márcia Dias Sousa