Communicating Risk
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Jonathan Crichton is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Member of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on the role of language in professional-lay interactions. He has published in a wide range of international journals and edited collections and is the author of The Discourse of Commercialization (2010), and co-editor, with Christopher N. Candlin, of Discourses of Deficit (2011) and Discourses of Trust (2013).
Christopher N. Candlin was Senior Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. His research and publications lie in the critical analysis of professional/institutional discourses. He was a member of the Editorial Boards of major international journals and co-edited, with Srikant Sarangi, the Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. Recent publications include Discourses of Deficit (2011) and Discourses of Trust (2013) both co-edited with Jonathan Crichton.
Arthur S. Firkins has had extensive involvement with risk communication in the public and private sectors. His doctoral research focused on the discursive framing of risk, he has co-authored recent papers with Christopher N. Candlin on the communication of risk in social care and currently works for BAE-Systems.
Content
PART I: COMMUNICATING RISK IN HEALTHCARE
2. Risk and Clinical Incident Disclosure: Navigating between Morality and Liability; Rick Iedema, Donella Piper, Katja Beitat, Suellen Allen, Kate Bower and Suyin Hor
3. 'Being Diplomatic with the Truth': The Discursive Management of Risk in Accounts of People Leaving Forensic Psychiatric Settings; Michael Coffey
4. Risk and Safety in Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: A Narrative Intervention in Residential Aged Care; Jonathan Crichton and Fiona O'Neill
5. Choice, Risk and Moral Judgement: Using Discourse Analysis to Identify the Moral Component of Midwives' Discourses; Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski
PART II: COMMUNICATING RISK IN LEGAL PROCESSES
6. Risk, Law and Security; Pat O'Malley
7. 'Making a Raise' and 'Dusting the Feds': Contextualising Constructions of Risk and Youth Crime; Joe Yates
PART III: COMMUNICATING RISK IN SOCIAL CARE
8. The Discourse of Risk in Youth Justice: A Numbers Game; Stephen Case
9. Working with Risk in Child Welfare Settings; Tony Stanley
PART IV: COMMUNICATING RISK IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND BIOSECURITY
10. Interpretive Environmental Risk Research: Affect, Discourses and Change; Karen L. Henwood and Nick Pidgeon
11. Social Risk, Relationships with Communities, and Corporate Culture; Philippe Hanna, Frank Vanclay and Jos Arts
12. How Structured Dialectical Discourse of Risk Eased Tension in North American LNG Siting Conflicts; Susan Mello
13. Framing Risk and Uncertainty in Social Science Articles on Climate Change, 1995-2012; Christopher Shaw, Iina Hellsten and Brigitte Nerlich
14. Between Two Absolutes Lies Risk: Risk Communication in Biosecurity Discourse; Sue McKell and Paul De Barro
PART V: MEDIATING RISK
15. Negotiating Risk in Chinese and Australian Hard News Reporting on Food Safety: A Corpus-based Study; Changpeng Huan
16. The Uses of Biological Sciences to Justify the Risks of Children's Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in North American Newsmagazines: 1990 to 2012; Juanne N. Clarke and Donya Mosleh
17. 'It's Just Statistics ... I'm Kind of a Glass Half-full Sort of Guy': The Challenge of Differing Doctor-Patient Perspectives in the Context of Electronically-mediated Cardiovascular Risk Management; Catherine O'Grady, Bindu Patel, Sally Candlin, Christopher N Candlin, David Peiris and Tim Usherwood
PART VI: REGULATING RISK
18. Central Banking in Risk Discourses: 'Remaking the Economy After Crisis; Clea D Bourne
19. Projecting a Definition of Risk Situation: Travel Advice and the Prudent Traveller; Arthur S. Firkins and Christopher N. Candlin
20. Suicide Candy: Tracing the Discourse Itineraries of Food Risk; Rodney H. Jones
