Overview
- Goes beyond available research which focusses on particular risks such as climate change, GM-food, or terrorism
- Examines long term change in the usage of the risk semantic across different social domains and risks
- Utilizes corpus based research strategies from computational linguistics to examine long term social change on risk
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (CRSTRU)
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jens O. Zinn is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK and Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Daniel McDonald is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014)
Book Subtitle: A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
Authors: Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald
Series Title: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64158-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64157-7Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87737-2Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64158-4Published: 09 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2523-7268
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7276
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 177
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Journalism, Medical Sociology