Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures
Ashley Riggs · Lucile Davier
Sep 2025 · Taylor & Francis
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About this ebook
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.
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).
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