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Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse (Hardcover)
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Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
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This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in
climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders
use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate
crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory
function of metaphors in communication on climate change, this book
offers an alternative view, one which posits that metaphors can go
beyond disseminating scientific observations to promoting biases in
the depiction of these observations. Auge analyses oft-used ideas
in climate change communication, such as carbon footprint, drawn
from a wide-ranging corpus spanning media discourse, scientific
discourse, NGO communications, political speech, and everyday
speech in English. The book presents an overview of different
arguments conveyed through metaphors around five key themes-climate
change mitigation; the evolution of climate change; global and
local effects; the significance of climate change in specific
countries; and the relationship between climate change and other
contemporary social issues. The volume highlights how the
complexity of climate change often necessitates the use of metaphor
and the value of further research on metaphor's argumentative
function in elucidating its ideological dimensions in climate
change discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars in
discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and
environmental communication.
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