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Distinguishing Risk from Danger by maxrivas is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The article analyzes the semantic distinction between "risk" and "danger" through a combination of frame semantics and corpus linguistics. 2) It finds that both terms commonly represent situations with potential negative consequences due to agency. However, "risk" implies the affected person is also the agent of the action, while "endanger" implies the affected person is not the agent. 3) Additionally, "risk" tends to represent rational and goal-directed action, which is not implied by "danger". The f
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- maxrivas
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- EN