TY - BOOK ID - 119434045 TI - Risk discourse and responsibility AU - Ädel, Annelie AU - Östman, Jan-Ola PY - 2023 SN - 9789027213891 9789027249739 PB - Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - General ethics KW - Pragmatics KW - Risk KW - Responsibility KW - Accountability KW - Moral responsibility KW - Obligation KW - Ethics KW - Supererogation KW - Economics KW - Uncertainty KW - Probabilities KW - Profit KW - Risk-return relationships UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119434045 AB - "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"-- ER -