Critical discourse analysis of climate change narratives

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-54
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse

scholarly journals Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Asplund
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Positive Impacts

This article examines communicative aspects of climate change, identifying and analysing metaphors used in specialized media reports on climate change, and discussing the aspects of climate change these metaphors emphasize and neglect. Through a critical discourse analysis of the two largest Swedish farm magazines over the 2000–2009 period, this study finds that greenhouse, war, and game metaphors were the most frequently used metaphors in the material. The analysis indicates that greenhouse metaphors are used to ascribe certain natural science characteristics to climate change, game metaphors to address positive impacts of climate change, and war metaphors to highlight negative impacts of climate change. The paper concludes by discussing the contrasting and complementary metaphorical representations farm magazines use to conventionalize climate change.

Articulating Geoengineering: Identifying an Understanding of Geoengineering Technology Through the Crutzen +10 Special Issue Forum

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-339
Author(s):  
Megan E. Cullinan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Articulation Theory ◽  
Research Questions

This article explores intertextuality, research questions, and arguments scientists use to articulate the legitimacy of geoengineering practices as “good science.” I employ critical discourse analysis to draw out patterns in articles from an invited special forum about the validity of geoengineering technology as a solution to climate change. Articulation theory guides my study of how scientists define what counts as “good science” by analyzing how geoengineering scientists legitimize their research as methodologically strong and beneficial to society. This project serves as a first step in clarifying how scientific debate influences broader circles and the potential social impacts of these debates.

scholarly journals Representation(s) of Developed and Developing Countries in Newspapers’ Coverage of Climate Conferences: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Luu Thi Kim Nhung
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
The Developed Countries

This study critically analysed how developed and developing countries were represented in The Independent and The New York Times’ coverage of the Conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC between 2004 and 2013. The method of analysis was a qualitative critical discourse analysis in accordance with Fairclough’s (1989) framework with the support of corpus techniques.The research findings showed that there were distinct responsibilities for climate change ascribed to the developed and the developing countries. While the developed countries were represented as being reluctant and indifferent towards their responsibility, the developing countries tended to depend on the developed countries’ support in solving their climate-related problems. During the study period, therefore, no consensus could be reached on a common framework for climate change. The linguistic features of lexical choice, passivisation, nominalisation, modality and metaphor were found ideologically employed in the newspapers’ representations of the countries. Additionally, the ideologies and their linguistic manifestations were influenced by the media’s discursive practices and the wider social context.

scholarly journals Scare-quoting climate: The rapid rise of climate denial in the Swedish far-right media ecosystem

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Kjell Vowles ◽  
Martin Hultman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Media Ecosystem

Abstract The final years of the 2010s marked an upturn in coverage on climate change. In Sweden, legacy media wrote more on the issue than ever before, especially in connection to the drought and wildfires in the summer of 2018 and the Fridays for Future movement started by Greta Thunberg. Reporting on climate change also reached unprecedented levels in the growingly influential far-right media ecosystem; from being a topic discussed hardly at all, it became a prominent issue. In this study, we use a toolkit from critical discourse analysis (CDA) to research how three Swedish far-right digital media sites reported on climate during the years 2018–2019. We show how the use of conspiracy theories, anti-establishment rhetoric, and nationalistic arguments created an antagonistic reaction to increased demands for action on climate change. By putting climate in ironic quotation marks, a discourse was created where it was taken for granted that climate change was a hoax.

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