Titlebook: Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014); A corpus-based explo Jens O. Zinn,Daniel McDonald Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The A

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Book 2018nge. 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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Book 2018onisation 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 comb

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Conceptual Foundations,er to make possible a systematic linking of the lexical and grammatical behaviour of risk words to meaning and discourse. In this way, key elements of sociological theory can be operationalised as sets of search queries and computational methods, making possible an empirical approach to sociological claims about risk.

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Risk, Health and Medicine in ,ere is less conscious and/or agentive risk-taking in the reporting on health and illness than in other social domains. While women and children (for example) are frequently represented in relation to risk, they are less likely to be presented as taking risks, and more likely to experience them.

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Risk in ,ny other findings, we found clear evidence for the institutionalisation of risk practices, trends towards the negative meaning of risk, ongoing. and decreasing agency and social inequalities in news coverage.

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Summary and Conclusions,s and other related phrases in a broader analysis of the semantic space could improve the understanding of linguistic dynamics. We currently extend the study to control for the influence of particular newspapers.