ABSTRACT
This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key linguistic themes, including linguistic polyphony, lexical choices, metaphors, narration, and framing, and uses examples from diverse forms of media, including scientific documents, policy reports, op-eds, and blogs, to shed light on how information and knowledge on climate change can be represented, disseminated, and interpreted and in turn, how they can inform further discussion and debate. Featuring contributions from a global team of researchers and drawing on a broad array of linguistic approaches, this collection offers an extensive overview of the role of language in the climate change debate for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in applied linguistics, environmental communication, discourse analysis, political science, climatology, and media studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
Frames and Narratives
chapter 2|18 pages
Verbal and Visual Framing Activity in Climate Change Discourse
chapter 3|18 pages
Competing Climate Change Narratives
chapter 4|20 pages
Stories about Climate Change
part |41 pages
Metaphors
chapter 5|19 pages
Metaphors in Online Editorials and Op-Eds about Climate Change, 2006–2013
chapter 6|20 pages
Conceptual Metaphors Associated with Climate Change in Corporate Reports in the Fossil Fuels Market
part |38 pages
Language of Climate Action
part |22 pages
New Methods to Study the Language of Climate Change