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.

chapter 1|9 pages

Language and Climate Change

part |58 pages

Frames and Narratives

chapter 2|18 pages

Verbal and Visual Framing Activity in Climate Change Discourse

A Multimodal Analysis of Media Representations of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report

chapter 3|18 pages

Competing Climate Change Narratives

An Analysis of Leader Statements during COP21 in Paris

chapter 4|20 pages

Stories about Climate Change

The Influence of Language on Norwegian Public Opinion

part |41 pages

Metaphors

chapter 5|19 pages

Metaphors in Online Editorials and Op-Eds about Climate Change, 2006–2013

A Study of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States

chapter 6|20 pages

Conceptual Metaphors Associated with Climate Change in Corporate Reports in the Fossil Fuels Market

Two Perspectives from the United States and Australia

part |38 pages

Language of Climate Action

part |22 pages

New Methods to Study the Language of Climate Change