Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach

by Alexander; Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415991230
• ISBN10: 0415991234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this study, 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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Integrating the Ecological Issue	p. 11
Ecological Commitment in Business	p. 27
The Framing of Ecology	p. 41
Talking About 'Sustainable Development'	p. 54
Wording the World	p. 65
Shaping Environmental Discourse	p. 83
Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value	p. 112
Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?	p. 134
Language and Orwell's Problem	p. 163
Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation	p. 189
Appendices	p. 215
Notes	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 235
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