1st Edition
Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures
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
Biography
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).
