Risk in the New York times (1987-2014) : a corpus-based exploration of sociological theories

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    • Zinn, Jens O.
    • McDonald, Daniel

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Risk in the New York times (1987-2014) : a corpus-based exploration of sociological theories

Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald

(Critical studies in risk and uncertainty / editors, Patrick Brown, Anna Olofsson, Jens O. Zinn)(Palgrave pivot)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 The New York Times (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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2. Conceptual Foundations.- 3. Research Design and Methods.- 4. Risk in the New York Times.- 5. Risk, Health and Medicine in The New York Times.- 6. Summary and Conclusions.

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