Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

by Richard Alexander
Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

by Richard Alexander

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415888356
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/06/2011
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Integrating the Ecological Issue 3. Ecological Commitment in Business 4. The Framing of Ecology 5. Talking About ‘Sustainable Development’ 6. Wording the World 7. Shaping Environmental Discourse 8. Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value 9. Engineering Agriculture. Who Pays the Price? 10. Language and Orwell’s Problem 11. Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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