1st Edition
Framing Discourse on the Environment A Critical Discourse Approach
By Richard Alexander
Copyright 2009
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Chapter 1: Integrating the ecological issue: Some linguistic self-reflexions; Chapter 2: Ecological commitment in business: A computer-corpus-based critical discourse analysis; Chapter 3: The framing of ecology: On the relation between language and economics; Chapter 4: Everyone is talking about ‘sustainable development’. Can they all mean the same thing? Chapter 5: Wording the world: The 2000 BBC Reith Lectures as an index of ecological progress or regression?; Chapter 6: Shaping environmental discourse: The example of the 2000 BBC Reith Lectures; Chapter 7: Resisting imposed metaphors of value: Vandana Shiva’s role in supporting Third World agriculture; Chapter 8: Environmental Issues, Third World Agriculture and Multinationals: Who Pays the Price?; Chapter 9: The Language and Discourse of Power and Orwell’s Problem; Chapter 10: Some concluding remarks on institutional obfuscation and military disinformation and what can be done about it
Biography
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).
"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 Amerikanistik
