Open AccessVerbal Expressions of Risk Communication: A Case Study After the 3.11 Crisis
Author(s) -
Shinichiro Okamoto,
Takeo Kikkawa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2014.p0644
Subject(s) - communication source , pragmatics , focus (optics) , psychology , nonverbal communication , risk communication , expression (computer science) , social psychology , linguistics , cognitive psychology , communication , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , business , telecommunications , philosophy , physics , optics , programming language
This paper explores problems related to verbal expressions of risk communication. In particular, we analyze several problems that arose during the critical situations caused by the accidents at the Fukushima nuclear plants following the Great East Japan Earthquake from pragmatics, linguistic psychological and social psychological perspectives. e focus on verbal expressions with implicatures and expressions incongruent with the sender’s right of involvement, underscoring that these expressions can lead to inferences on the part of the receiver that were intended by the sender and/or to negative images about the sender