Risk in the New York Times (1987-2014): A Corpus-Based Exploration of Sociological Theories

by Jens O Zinn and Daniel McDonald

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319641573
• ISBN13: 9783319641577
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"