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The book generates new insights into the link between language and social change, and provides a new strategy to examine claims of sociological theorising utilising a systemic functional theory of language. While we have developed an in-depth account of how risk language is deployed in print news, and how it has changed, it is not yet known how risk words travel from one to another domain; when risk words are instantiated and when not reporting on similar issues; to what extent media cultures and their institutionalisation influences discourse semantic changes. The connection between risk words 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.
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Zinn, J.O., McDonald, D. (2018). Summary and Conclusions. In: Risk in The New York Times (1987–2014). Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64158-4_6
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