Jens O Zinn: 2 books
The UK ‘at Risk’
A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
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...
Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014)
A corpus-based exploration of sociological theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
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...