When Safe Means ‘Dangerous’: A Corpus Investigation of Risk Communication in the Media

Tang, Chris; Rundblad, Gabriella

doi:10.1093/applin/amv058

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“…Fortunately, such information can be obtained with corpus analysis (Stewart 2010). Semantic preference, semantic prosody, and Corpus Linguistics are indeed mutually interdependent since these semantic phenomena are important topics in Corpus Linguistics and, at the same time, this discipline is key to the study of extended lexical units (Xiao/McEnery 2006, Stewart 2010, Tang/ Rundblad 2015. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing debate as to whether corpora or human intuition is the best way of accessing semantic preference and semantic prosody (Louw 1993, Sinclair 2003).…”

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Semantic prosody and semantic preference in multi-word terms

Cabezas-García

Faber

2019

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Multi-word terms (MWTs), in the form of noun compounds (NCs), are frequently used in specialized texts (Nakov 2013). They consist of juxtaposed terms with underlying semantic structures that limit the combination of arguments (Pinker 1989). However, NCs formed by more than two terms have received little attention. This study focused on English and Spanish three-term endocentric NCs used in Coastal Engineering. To explore the presence of semantic preference and semantic prosody in these MWTs, a set of terms was extracted from a Coastal Engineering corpus. The structure of the MWTs was disambiguated and the semantic relations between their components were specified. Verb paraphrases were also elicited from field experts and the web, and then semantically analyzed. The results showed that semantic preference and semantic prosody play an important role in the formation of MWTs and should be taken into account when rendering a text into another language.

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Semantic prosody and semantic preference in multi-word terms

Cabezas-García

Faber

2019

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“…The news media play a critical role in communicating health risks to the general public (Wellcome Trust, 2016) and in shaping their understanding, attribution of responsibility and preventive behaviours (Harvey & Koteyko, 2013). Though risk alerts are often premised on the authority of expert sources (Vasterman & Ruigrok, 2013;Raupp, 2014) journalists are often faulted for amplifying and dramatizing health risks and creating undue public anxiety (Tang & Rundblad, 2015). Health media messages are usually examined in edited reports in which experts are cited or used in a sound-bite that supports the planned framing of the news story (Verhoeven, 2010).…”

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Interactional Alarms: Experts’ Framing of Health Risks in Live Broadcast News Interviews

Armon

2017

Health Communication

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This study examined how experts frame health risks in real-time interactions with journalists. Though there is evidence that experts influence media framing of health risks, the ways they respond to journalists' agendas in real-time interactions have yet to be explored. This paper examines instances of risk assessment extracted from a corpus of news interviews to determine how expert assessments were requested and provided. The analysis reveals that experts rarely deliver their assessments neutrally but rather treat these exchanges as opportunities for framing or reframing the topic. Their framing is shown to be responsive to journalistic agendas and to those who experts understand to be accountable when their assessment is elicited. These findings suggest ways in which news interviews can be useful in health communication. The implications for experts, journalists, and public information officers who plan to use interviews for this purpose are discussed.

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“…According to Hardy and Colombini (2011), to find the positive prosody of risk was exceedingly difficult, but they still found it such as "…those risks are worth taking." Tang and Rundblad (2015) investigated how media report materials in drinking water that could potentially harm human health through Wordsmith software. By comparing US and British media, they found that although both media used different terminology of contaminants, they were likely represented the contaminants negatively (Tang & Rundblad, 2015).…”

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“…Tang and Rundblad (2015) investigated how media report materials in drinking water that could potentially harm human health through Wordsmith software. By comparing US and British media, they found that although both media used different terminology of contaminants, they were likely represented the contaminants negatively (Tang & Rundblad, 2015). According to the concordance analysis, both media typically expressed the causal relationship between the threat and the object of risk, as well as the co-occurring words which represented the causal relationship such as effects, impacts, impact, causing, affecting and cause (Tang & Rundblad, 2015).…”

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“…By comparing US and British media, they found that although both media used different terminology of contaminants, they were likely represented the contaminants negatively (Tang & Rundblad, 2015). According to the concordance analysis, both media typically expressed the causal relationship between the threat and the object of risk, as well as the co-occurring words which represented the causal relationship such as effects, impacts, impact, causing, affecting and cause (Tang & Rundblad, 2015). Along with them, the words like harmful, toxic and hazardous also explain the relationship (ibid.…”

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A Discourse Analysis Through Corpus Linguistics on the Case of Popular Science Book the Grand Design

Uyun¹

2016

KLS

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This study aims to discover the theme of popular physics book, The Grand Keywords: quantum, cosmology, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan tema buku sains popular, The Grand Design, melalui korpus linguistik dan analisis wacana. Selain itu, penelitian ini berupaya untuk mengungkap cara penulis buku tersebut mendeskripsikan sebuah bidang kajian yang pada dasarnya bukan fokus kajian mereka. Dalam hal ini, penulis buku adalah fisikawan dan kosmologis yang berusaha untuk menggunakan teori kuantum untuk menjelaskan sejarah terbentuknya alam semesta. Terdapat dua istilah, quantum dan cosmology yang ada di buku dan akan diteliti secara linguistik. Sebuah perangkat lunak korpus bernama AntConc v 3.4.3w akan digunakan untuk mencari berapa kali dua istilah tersebut muncul dalam buku dan hasilnya akan dianalisis dengan menggunakan chi-square test untuk diketahui signifikansi perbedaan antara dua istilah tersebut. Data juga akan dianalisis dengan cara melihat kolokasi dan konkordansi, untuk selanjutnya diproses dengan menggunakan analisis wacana. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa quantum memiliki jauh lebih kemunculan dibandingkan dengan cosmology.

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When Safe Means ‘Dangerous’: A Corpus Investigation of Risk Communication in the Media

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

Semantic prosody and semantic preference in multi-word terms

Semantic prosody and semantic preference in multi-word terms

Interactional Alarms: Experts’ Framing of Health Risks in Live Broadcast News Interviews

A Discourse Analysis Through Corpus Linguistics on the Case of Popular Science Book the Grand Design

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