The UK ‘at Risk’: A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009
Jens O. Zinn, "The UK ‘at Risk’: A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009 "
English | ISBN: 3030202372 | 2020 | 291 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 3030202372 | 2020 | 291 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.
Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural and structural transformations, the management of infectious and chronic diseases and climate change. He also explores changes in the public sphere, including the production of the news.
Based on an interdisciplinary research project which combines linguistic research tools with sociological analysis of the social contexts, the book contributes to a better understanding of how '
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