Risk Discourse and Responsibility
The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk, safety and security, but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools, the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered – such as COVID-19, nuclear energy, machine translation, terrorism – are socially pertinent and timely.
Tetsuta Komatsubara's chapter on "Framing risk metaphorically: Changes in metaphors of COVID-19 over time in Japanese", which is chapter 3 in the volume, won the Maenosono Young Researcher’s Award in 2024 as the best paper of each graduate school of Kobe University: https://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/ja/announcement/20240716-65819/
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] 2023. vii, 260 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. From risk and responsibility to risk discourseAnnelie Ädel, Jan-Ola Östman and Catharina Nyström Höög | pp. 2–37
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Part I. Expert and lay perspectives on risk
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Chapter 2. Combining governmentality and discourse analysis: An application on focus groups discussing radioactive decontaminationJoel Rasmussen | pp. 40–64
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Chapter 3. Framing risk metaphorically: Changes in metaphors of COVID-19 over time in JapaneseTetsuta Komatsubara | pp. 65–87
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Chapter 4. Shouldering responsibility: An autoethnographic perspective on informed consent and exoneration in a clinical trialPeter Grundy | pp. 88–116
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Part II. Emerging genres for risk discourse
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Chapter 5. Formulations of risk and responsibility in COVID-19 contact tracing telephone interactions in Flanders, BelgiumRomeo De Timmerman, Anne-Sophie Bafort, Sofie Van de Geuchte, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Stef Slembrouck | pp. 118–141
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Chapter 6. “Your health is in your hands”: The linguistic construction of responsibility in COVID-19 storefront signage in New York CityKylie Lance, Maureen Matarese, Chloe Friedman, Cristina Diaz and Brandon Coombs | pp. 142–169
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Part III. Risk and technology
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Chapter 7. Risk and responsibility in human-robot interaction: An interactional approachKerstin Fischer | pp. 172–189
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Chapter 8. The effects of using machine translation on perceptions of source credibilityTomas Lehecka | pp. 190–212
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Part IV. Managing risk
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Chapter 9. Risk discourse in the linguistic landscape: Safety information signage onboard metro carriages in Stockholm and HelsinkiVäinö Syrjälä | pp. 214–231
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Chapter 10. On security and safety: Governing terrorism and security through riskSissel Haugdal Jore | pp. 232–243
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Epilogue
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Chapter 11. From risk and responsibility to complicity – and backJef Verschueren | pp. 246–254
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Index | pp. 255–260
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Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye
2024. Chapter 1. “When bad things happen to people”. In The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346], ► pp. 1 ff. 
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics