ISBN:
9783319641584
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 177 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Critical studies in risk and uncertainty
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zinn, Jens O Risk in the New York Times (1987-2014) : A Corpus-Based Exploration of Sociological Theories
DDC:
302.12
Keywords:
Risk--Sociological aspects
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- References -- 2 Conceptual Foundations -- Abstract -- 2.1 The Meaning of Risk -- 2.2 Explaining the Shift Towards Risk -- 2.2.1 Empirical Evidence and Shortcomings -- 2.2.2 The Centrality of the Health Sector in Driving Public Risk Debates -- 2.2.3 Language, the Media and Social Processes -- 2.2.4 Hypotheses and Research Questions -- 2.3 Linguistic Foundations -- 2.3.1 A Systemic Functional Conceptualisation of Language -- 2.3.1.1 Risk and the Experiential Metafunction -- 2.3.1.2 Risk and the Interpersonal Function: Arguability -- 2.3.2 Systemic Functional and Corpus Linguistics -- 2.4 Exploring Sociological Theories Using Corpus Linguistics -- References -- 3 Research Design and Methods -- Abstract -- 3.1 Sampling: The New York Times (1987-2014) -- 3.2 Corpus Building -- 3.3 Tools and Interface Used for Corpus Interrogation -- 3.4 Shortcomings in Computational Methods -- 3.5 The Limits of Lexicogrammatical Querying -- 3.6 Limitations of Scope -- 3.7 Summary -- References -- 4 Risk in The New York Times -- Abstract -- 4.1 Words and Wordings -- 4.1.1 How Frequently Do Risk Words Appear? -- 4.1.2 What Word Class Do Risk Words Have? -- 4.1.3 Which Experiential Roles Do Risk Words Occupy? -- 4.1.4 What Processes Are Involved When Risk Is a Participant? -- 4.1.5 How Are Participant Risks Modified? -- 4.1.6 What Kinds of Risk Processes Are There, and What Are Their Relative Frequencies? -- 4.1.7 When Risk Is a Process, What Participants Are Involved? -- 4.1.7.1 Riskers -- 4.1.7.2 Valued Objects and Negative Outcomes -- 4.1.8 When Risk Is a Modifier, What Are the Most Common Forms? -- 4.1.9 When Risk Is a Modifier, What Is Being Modified? -- 4.1.10 Which Proper Nouns Co-occur with Risk? -- 4.1.11 Summary
Abstract:
4.2 Sociological Questions and Hypotheses -- 4.2.1 The Institutionalisation and Normalisation of Risk -- 4.2.1.1 Institutionalisation of Risk Practices -- 4.2.1.2 The Normalisation of the Risk Frame -- 4.2.1.3 Risk as an Objective and Uncontested Quality of the World -- 4.2.2 The Shift to the Negative Side of Risk -- 4.2.3 More Worries, but Less Control in the Presentation of Risk? -- 4.2.4 Risk Colonisation and Pervasiveness of a Calculative Rationality -- 4.2.5 Do Organisations Push the Risk Semantic? -- 4.2.6 Ambivalences in Risk and Individualism -- 4.2.6.1 Individualisation of Risk-Bearing and Institutionalization of Risk-Taking -- 4.2.6.2 From Risk-Taking to Risk-Bearing -- 4.2.6.3 Individualisation Winners and Losers -- 4.2.7 The Increasing Salience of at-Risk Status in Risk Reporting -- 4.2.8 Summary -- References -- 5 Risk, Health and Medicine in The New York Times -- Abstract -- 5.1 Risk Semantics in Health Discourse -- 5.2 LifestyleChronic Versus Infectious Diseases -- 5.3 Epidemiology -- 5.4 Scientific Expertise -- 5.5 Agency, Vulnerability and Health -- 5.6 Summary -- References -- 6 Summary and Conclusions -- Abstract -- 6.1 Results -- 6.2 Perspectives -- References -- Index
