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Publication details [#46388]

Nerlich, Brigitte, Svenja Adolphs and Craig Hamilton. 2007. The meanings of ‘risk’: a view from corpus linguistics. Discourse & Society 18 (2) : 163–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | corpus analysis | meaning | ordinary language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper sets out to discuss some English linguistic corpora that explain the meaning of risk in ordinary language. This might offer social scientists a more solid basis for future statements regarding the meaning of risk.