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Tang, Chris; Rundblad, Gabriella – Applied Linguistics, 2017
The mass media has an important role in informing the general public about emerging health risks. Content-based studies of risk communication in the media have revealed a tendency to exaggerate risks or simplify science, but linguistic studies in this area are still scarce. This paper outlines a corpus based investigation of media reporting on the…
Descriptors: Risk, Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Biochemistry