Framing Discourse on the Environment
A Critical Discourse Approach
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2010
252 pages
978-1-135-85282-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres - including company websites, advertisements, press articles, speeches and lectures - Alexander interrogates how in the media, press, corporate and activist circles language is employed to argue for and propagate selected positions on the growing ecological crisis. For example, he asks: How are ecological and environmental concerns articulated in texts? What do we learn about ecological 'problems' through texts from differing sources? What language features accompany ecological discourse in differing contexts and registers? Attention is especially directed at where this discourse comes into contact with business, economic and political concerns.
Reviews / Votes
"For anyone interested in language, ecology and politics, the book is an eye-opener and should be compulsory reading."--Alwin Fill, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und AmerikanistikMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
96 s/w Tabellen, 1 s/w Zeichnung
96 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
File size
1,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-85282-5 (9781135852825)
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Person
Richard J. Alexander, Full Professor of English Business Communication at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Publications include Aspects of Verbal Humour in English and New International Business English (co-author Leo Jones).
Content
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Integrating the Ecological Issue
Chapter 3: Ecological Commitment in Business
Chapter 4: The Framing of Ecology
Chapter 5: Talking About 'Sustainable Development'
Chapter 6: Wording the World
Chapter 7: Shaping Environmental Discourse
Chapter 8: Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value
Chapter 9: Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?
Chapter 10: Language and Orwell's Problem
Chapter 11: Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Integrating the Ecological Issue
Chapter 3: Ecological Commitment in Business
Chapter 4: The Framing of Ecology
Chapter 5: Talking About 'Sustainable Development'
Chapter 6: Wording the World
Chapter 7: Shaping Environmental Discourse
Chapter 8: Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value
Chapter 9: Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?
Chapter 10: Language and Orwell's Problem
Chapter 11: Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
