What is it about?
It is about the ways politicians and other public speakers (journalists, experts) manipulate the notion of risk during important societal choices
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Why is it important?
This research helps linguists and ordinary public see the manipulative potential of political rhetoric
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Writing this article was a long and painful, but also enjoyable process. And I hope very much it will find its readers
Valentyna Ushchyna
Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University
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This page is a summary of: Manipulative use of risk as a stance in political communication, Discourse & Society, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0957926517734424.
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