ISBN:
0415991234
,
9780415991230
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 239 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge critical studies in discourse 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Framing Discourse on the Environment : A Critical Discourse Approach
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Critical discourse analysis
;
Ecolinguistics
Abstract:
The author demonstrates the linguistic distractions, euphemisms and pitfalls of corporate-political discourse on the environment subjecting them to a trenchant analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Integrating the Ecological Issue; 3 Ecological Commitment in Business; 4 The Framing of Ecology; 5 Talking About 'Sustainable Development'; 6 Wording the World; 7 Shaping Environmental Discourse; 8 Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value; 9 Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?; 10 Language and Orwell's Problem; 11 Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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