Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014): A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 1-6 Conceptual Foundations (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 7-65 Research Design and Methods (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 67-79 Risk in The New York Times (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 81-136 Risk, Health and Medicine in The New York Times (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 137-154 Summary and Conclusions (Jens O. Zinn, Daniel McDonald)....Pages 155-169 Back Matter ....Pages 171-177