Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate

<p>This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate already widely studied across a number of disciplines by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key linguistic themes including linguistic polyphony lexical choices metaphors narration and framing and uses examples from diverse forms of media including scientific documents policy reports op-eds and blogs to shed light on how information and knowledge on climate change can be represented disseminated and interpreted and in turn how they can inform further discussion and debate. Featuring contributions from a global team of researchers and drawing on a broad array of linguistic approaches this collection offers an extensive overview of the role of language in the climate change debate for graduate students researchers and scholars in applied linguistics environmental communication discourse analysis political science climatology and media studies.</p>