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Max Boholm
Researcher
Gothenburg ResearchAbout Max Boholm
My areas of interest include conceptual, communicative and cognitive aspects of risk and technology. Methodologically I approach conceptual structure and discourses on technology through studies of linguistic representation and language use.
Research areas
- concepts, discourse, risk, nano, cybersecurity
Teaching areas
- language and cognition; the concept of risk
Selected publications
Towards a semiotic definition of discourse and a basis for a typology of discourses
Boholm, Max
Semiotica, 208, 2016
The Semantic Distinction Between “Risk” and “Danger”
Boholm, Max
Risk Analysis, 32:2, 2012
Political representations of nano in Swedish government documents
Boholm, Max
Science and Public Policy, 41:5, s. 575-596, 2014
The semantic field of risk
Boholm, Max
Safety Science, 92, 2017
Risk and Quantification: A Linguistic Study
Boholm, Max
Risk Analysis, 39:6, s. 1243-1261, 2019
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Political dogwhistles and community divergence in semantic
change
Max Boholm, Asad Sayeed
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change - 2023 -
Twenty-five years of cyber threats in the news: a study of Swedish newspaper coverage
(1995–2019)
Max Boholm
Journal of Cybersecurity - 2021 -
Is IT safe? En studie av den publika diskursen av informationssäkerhet i Sverige: Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning av ett
postdok-projekt
Max Boholm
2021 -
Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish
Newspapers
Max Boholm
Nanoethics - 2020 -
Risk Identification: A Corpus‐Assisted Study of Websites of Government
Agencies
Max Boholm, Åsa Boholm
Risks, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy - 2020 -
How do Swedish Government agencies define
risk?
Max Boholm
Journal of Risk Research - 2019 -
Risk and Quantification: A Linguistic
Study
Max Boholm
Risk Analysis - 2019 -
Risk association: towards a linguistically informed framework for analysing risk in
discourse
Max Boholm
Journal of Risk Research - 2018 -
“Just Carbon”: Ideas About Graphene Risks by Graphene Researchers and Innovation
Advisors
Rickard Arvidsson, Max Boholm, Mikael Johansson, Monica Lindh de Montoya
NanoEthics - 2018 -
The semantic field of
risk
Max Boholm
Safety Science - 2017 -
A Definition Framework for the Terms Nanomaterial and
Nanoparticle
Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson
NanoEthics - 2016 -
The use and meaning of nano in American English: Towards a systematic
description
Max Boholm
Ampersand: An International Journal of General and Applied Linguistics - 2016 -
Risk, language and
discourse
Max Boholm
2016 -
The concepts of risk, safety, and security: Applications in everyday
language
Max Boholm, Niklas Möller, Sven Ove Hansson
Risk Analysis - 2016 -
Towards a semiotic definition of discourse and a basis for a typology of
discourses
Max Boholm
Semiotica - 2016 -
The value of environment in the controversy over antibacterial silver: A Swedish case
study
Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson
Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment, Participation Revisited: Openings and Closures for Deliberations on the Commons, held in Uppsala, Sweden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, June 6-11, 2013 - 2015 -
Dis-Ag-reement: the construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over antibacterial
silver
Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson, Åsa Boholm, Hervé Corvellec, Sverker Molander
Journal of Risk Research - 2015 -
Controversy over antibacterial silver: implications for environmental and sustainability
assessments
Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson
Journal of Cleaner Production - 2014 -
Political representations of nano in Swedish government
documents
Max Boholm
Science and Public Policy - 2014 -
The representation of nano as a risk in Swedish news media
coverage
Max Boholm
Journal of Risk Research - 2013 -
The Semantic Distinction Between “Risk” and “Danger”: A Linguistic
Analysis
Max Boholm
Risk Analysis - 2012 -
The many faces of nano in newspaper
reporting
Max Boholm, Åsa Boholm
Journal of Nanoparticle Research - 2012 -
Head movements and prosody in multimodal
feedback
Max Boholm, Gustaf Lindblad
NEALT Proceedings Series: 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, 27-28 May 2011, Helsinki - 2011 -
Riskhanteringsbeslut inom transportsektorn: Slutredovisning av forskningsprojektet TRANSAM
2007-2010
Åsa Boholm, Hervé Corvellec, Vicki Johansson, Max Boholm, Marianne Karlsson
2011 -
Repeated Head Movements, their Function and Relation to
Speech
Max Boholm, Jens Allwood
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal Corporation: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality. LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. 18 May. Kipp, M., Martin, J.C., Paggio, P. and Heylen, D. (Eds.). - 2010 -
Risk and causality in newspaper
reporting
Max Boholm
Risk Analysis - 2009 -
Komplexa risker i Göta älvdalen: En innehållsanalys av medierapportering,
1994-2007
Max Boholm
CEFOS Rapport - 2008 -
Pennan som vapen : innehållsanalys av skrivelser från allmänheten, organisationer och företag till regeringen gällande tunnelbygget genom Hallandsås
1992-2004
Max Boholm
2005