ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will use the analytical framework established in Chapter 6 in order to investigate the moral panic encoded in the writings of Mary Whitehouse in the 1960s and 1970s in Britain. In doing so, I will once again be using keywords as a way of focusing on the aboutness of the moral panic, and a study of patterns of colligation and collocation to explore convergence in the MWC. Towards the end of the chapter, I will return to the issue of bad language and consider how bad language was represented by the VALA (pages 124-126). The chapter will consider throughout how the moral panic in the MWC compares to that in the SRMC. To begin with, however, let us return to the question of moral panics and the use of keywords to explore them.
