Chapter 11. From risk and responsibility to complicity – and back

Verschueren, Jef

doi:10.1075/pbns.336.11ver

In:Risk Discourse and Responsibility
Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 336] 2023
► pp. 246–254

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Chapter 11
From risk and responsibility to complicity – and back

Jef Verschueren | University of Antwerp, Belgium

Published online: 24 July 2023

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.336.11ver

Article outline

1.Introduction: Why risk discourse?
2.From risk and responsibility to complicity
3.Discursive complicity and the eye of the beholder
4.Back from complicity
Notes
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Chapter 11From risk and responsibility to complicity – and back

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Chapter 11
From risk and responsibility to complicity – and back