In:Risk Discourse and Responsibility
Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 336] 2023
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 24 July 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.336.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.336.toc
Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Introduction
Chapter 1.From risk and responsibility to risk discourse2
Annelie Ädel
Jan-Ola Östman
Catharina Nyström Höög
Part I.Expert and lay perspectives on risk
Chapter 2.Combining governmentality and discourse analysis: An application on focus groups discussing radioactive decontamination40
Joel Rasmussen
Chapter 3.Framing risk metaphorically: Changes in metaphors of COVID-19 over time in Japanese65
Tetsuta Komatsubara
Chapter 4.Shouldering responsibility: An autoethnographic perspective on informed consent and exoneration in a
clinical trial88
Peter Grundy
Part II.Emerging genres for risk discourse
Chapter 5.Formulations of risk and responsibility in COVID-19 contact tracing telephone
interactions in Flanders, Belgium118
Romeo De Timmerman
Anne-Sophie Bafort
Sofie Van de Geuchte
Mieke Vandenbroucke
Stef Slembrouck
Chapter 6.“Your health is in your hands”: The linguistic construction of responsibility in COVID-19 storefront signage in
New York City142
Kylie Lance
Maureen Matarese
Chloe Friedman
Cristina Diaz
Brandon Coombs
Part III.Risk and technology
Chapter 7.Risk and responsibility in human-robot interaction: An interactional approach172
Kerstin Fischer
Chapter 8.The effects of using machine translation on perceptions
of source credibility190
Tomas Lehecka
Part IV.Managing risk
Chapter 9.Risk discourse in the linguistic landscape: Safety information signage onboard metro carriages in Stockholm and
Helsinki214
Väinö Syrjälä
Chapter 10.On security and safety: Governing terrorism and security through risk232
Sissel Haugdal Jore
Epilogue
Chapter 11.From risk and responsibility to complicity – and back246
Jef Verschueren
Index
