Risk in The New York Times: A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories (1st ed. 2018) (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

By: Jens O. Zinn and Daniel McDonald

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319641584
Related ISBNs:: 9783319641577
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 05/05/20
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Medicine, Communication, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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