Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse - Insights From Critical Discourse Studies

This book critically analyses how diverse Parties and non-Party stakeholders (such as governments, states, foundations, NGOs, civil society, multilateral organizations, and the private sector) promote climate actions through linguistic and visual symbols across multiple platforms, unveiling the underlying ideologies within these discourses.

List of contents

Introduction; Negotiating climate change in public discourse: Insights from critical discourse studies 1. Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: An analysis of implicit argumentation 2. How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 3. The hybrid discourse of the 'European Green Deal': Road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly 4. Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China's and Australia's media discourse of climate change 5. Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: A critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries

About the author

Dr. Guofeng Wang is Professor at Shanghai Normal University. Her research interests include discourse studies and media studies, particularly the interplay between discourse, media and society.
Dr. Changpeng Huan is Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on corpus- or Python-informed discourse studies in both traditional and new media.

Summary

This book critically analyses how diverse Parties and non-Party stakeholders (such as governments, states, foundations, NGOs, civil society, multilateral organizations, and the private sector) promote climate actions through linguistic and visual symbols across multiple platforms, unveiling the underlying ideologies within these discourses.

Product details

• Authors: Guofeng Huan Wang
• Assisted by: Changpeng Huan (Editor), Guofeng Wang (Editor), Wang Guofeng (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032981819
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3298181-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Media Studies, History: specific events & topics, Climate Change, HISTORY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, History: specific events and topics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc