ABSTRACT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s most influential climate organization, evaluating the science related to climate change. Their comprehensive Assessment Reports (AR) represent the outcome of a painstaking process involving three Working Groups (WG), dealing with the physical science basis (WG I), impacts (WG II), and solutions (WG III). In the analysis of news producers’ framing activity in the verbal part of their texts, the author considers how linguistic resources are used for framing purposes. First, lexical elements are identified that indicate which domain (the term is here used in a somewhat loose sense) the writer has chosen to place the issue/phenomenon in. The author also states his aims and research questions, before he describes the material. Next follows a fairly comprehensive case study involving four of the news texts, in order to demonstrate the analytical procedure, before a report and discussion on the findings for the whole material.
