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This brief chapter engages with the question as to what extent changes in news production might have influenced the occurrences of at risk constructs. The section starts with an overview of the changing size of the different sections of The Times before examining how the proportion of at risk instantiations in different sections contribute to the overall body of at risk language in The Times. The substantial increase in lifestyle sections such as Arts and Reviews has less of an influence than Sports, Features and Opinions while the News is still an important domain for the instantiation of at risk constructs.
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Zinn, J.O. (2020). Changes in News Production and Linguistic Change. In: The UK ‘at Risk’. Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20238-5_8
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