The Language Of Environment: A New Rhetoric

by Myerson; George

• ISBN13: 9781857283303
• ISBN10: 1857283309
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An introduction to the meaning and use of language specifically in terms of the study of the environment and the formulation and implementation of policy, drawing on a wide range of sources from the mass media to the specialist article.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Environment words, environet and the rhetorical web	p. 1
Environment words and environet	p. 1
The rhetorical web	p. 11
A new rhetoric	p. 19
Discourse and environment	p. 27
So what?	p. 31
Reading the texts	p. 34
Topic analysis (I)	p. 37
Environet of topics	p. 37
Resources, energy	p. 38
Population	p. 54
Biodiversity, rainforest, species	p. 65
Multiple interpretations	p. 77
Topic analysis (II)	p. 79
Pollution, polluter	p. 79
Global warming, climate change, the greenhouse effect	p. 87
Sustainable development, sustainability	p. 97
Earth, planet, globe, Gaia	p. 107
The environet as an open system	p. 115
Environmental ethos	p. 119
Essential vision: sustainable development, sustain, sustainability	p. 120
Technical vision: energy	p. 125
Systematic far-sightedness: resources	p. 126
Inclusive far-sightedness: global warming	p. 128
Reassuring realism: pollution	p. 132
Reverent objectivity: Earth	p. 134
Emotive objectivity: population	p. 137
Restrained objectivity and its rivals: biodiversity and rainforest	p. 139
The role of environmental ethos	p. 146
Constitutive figures: metaphorical argumentation, environmental irony, associative argumentation	p. 149
Metaphorical argumentation	p. 150
Environmental irony	p. 163
Associative argumentation	p. 171
From constitutive figures to figures of resolution	p. 178
Figures of resolution: dialectic of catastrophe, the feasible possibility, overcoming the polarity	p. 181
Dialectic of catastrophe	p. 187
The feasible possibility	p. 187
Overcoming the polarity	p. 193
Concluding on solutions	p. 200
Rhetoric and culture	p. 203
The achievement of rhetoric	p. 203
The answer culture	p. 208
A culture of argument	p. 216
Environet and modernity	p. 226
Reading environmental texts: the methodology	p. 229
"Doing" rhetoric: a nuclear exercise	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 255
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