Risk In The New York Times (1987–2014): A Corpus-based Exploration Of Sociological Theories (critical Studies In Risk And Uncertainty)
by Jens O. Zinn /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book investigates to what extent claims of common social
science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality,
risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are
reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The
authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words in
This book investigates to what extent claims of common social
science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality,
risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are
reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The
authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words inThe New York Times
The New York Times (1987-2014) and a case study of the
health domain.
(1987-2014) and a case study of the
health domain.
The book presents results from an interdisciplinary enterprise
which combines sociological risk theories with a systematic
functional theory of language to conduct an empirical analysis
of linguistic patterns and social change. It will be of
interest to students and scholars interested in corpus
linguistics and digital humanities, and social scientists
looking for new research strategies to examine long term social
change.
The book presents results from an interdisciplinary enterprise
which combines sociological risk theories with a systematic
functional theory of language to conduct an empirical analysis
of linguistic patterns and social change. It will be of
interest to students and scholars interested in corpus
linguistics and digital humanities, and social scientists
looking for new research strategies to examine long term social
change.