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Understanding the discourse-semantic shift towards risk in the UK and Germany

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UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER 

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address: BAILRIGG
city: LANCASTER
postcode: LA1 4YW
website: www.lancaster.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-projects/understanding-the-discourse-semantic-shift-towards-risk-a-corpus-sociology/
 Total cost 195˙454 €
 EC max contribution 195˙454 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-RI
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-07-01   to  2018-12-30

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1    UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER UK (LANCASTER) coordinator 195˙454.00

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 Project objective

This project aims to advance our understanding of the forces that have driven the proliferation of risk discourses in the UK and Germany since World War Two. Working at the boundaries of risk sociology and corpus linguistics, this is a highly innovative enterprise, both theoretically and methodologically. It will examine the contribution made by main-stream risk theories to explaining the increasing use of the risk semantic in media coverage during the last 50 years, and it will develop an empirically grounded theory of the observable shift towards risk. The Fellow will utilise cutting-edge corpus-based research strategies to systematically reconstruct the changing use of the discourse-semantics of risk and will complement these with interviews of media experts to examine how these changes are linked to institutional and socio-cultural changes and historically significant events. The Fellow is an outstanding scholar in risk studies who will further develop his skills and expand his networks among eminent European sociologists and corpus linguists. The IF will be placed with Prof McEnery, a leading scholar in corpus research at Lancaster University, who is the Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS). This will be complemented by a secondment with Prof Kämper, an expert in historical linguistic change, at the Institute of German Language (IDS) in Mannheim. Both these opportunities will allow the Fellow to build on existing networks with scholars working in the maturing domain of corpus-driven social science research. Working with corpus based discourse analysts and computational linguists at CASS and IDS will allow the Fellow to firmly establish his skills in the application of corpus based discourse analysis within the social sciences and will enhance his opportunities to reintegrate into the European academic community.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Jens O Zinn
From risking life to sounding like a fence sitter. Discourse semantic changes in The Times 1785-2009
published pages: , ISSN: 2195-867X, DOI:
Journal for Discourse Studies 3 times a year 2019-07-26
2019 Jens O Zinn
The UK \'at risk\' A corpus approach to social change 1785-2009
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty 2019-07-26
2018 Zinn, Jens Oliver
The Proliferation of ‘at risk’ in The Times: A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change, 1785-2009
published pages: 313-364, ISSN: 0172-6404, DOI: 10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.313-364
Historical Social Research 43 2019-07-26

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