UK ‘at Risk’

Jens O. Zinn is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Guest Professor at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Understanding Social and Linguistic Change.- 3. At Risk-Constructs as Research Object: Research Design and Methods.- 4.Risk in The Times - 1950s to 2000s.- 5. People and Valued Objects at Risk in The Times - 1780s to 2000s.- 6. From Substantial Risk to Social Relations and Rhetoric.- 7. Institutional Strategies and a New Quality.- 8. Changes in News Production and Linguistic Change.- 9. Social Forces and the Proliferation of at Risk-Language.

“Two worthy aspects of this book are its methodological strength and its theoretical contributions. ... the book will serve as an important stepping stone for the further fusion of corpus linguistics and sociology. It would be methodologically and theoretically useful for the researchers in various disciplines, such as sociology, media studies, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.” (Fan Pan and Rulan Hu, Discourse & Society, Vol. 32 (2), 2020)