Framing discourse on the environment : a critical discourse approach

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Author:

Alexander, Richard J., 1945-

ISBN:

9780415991230

9780415888356

9780203890615

Personal Author:

Alexander, Richard J., 1945-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

xii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge critical studies in discourse ; 1

Routledge critical studies in discourse ; 1.

Contents:

Introduction -- Integrating the ecological issue -- Ecological commitment in business -- The framing of ecology -- Talking about 'sustainable development' -- Wording the world -- Shaping environmental discourse -- Resisting imposed metaphors of value -- Engineering agriculture : who pays the price? -- Language and Orwell's problem -- Concluding obfuscation and disinformation.

Subject Term:

Ecolinguistics.

Critical discourse analysis.

Critical discourse analysis. (OCoLC)fst00883664

Ecolinguistics. (OCoLC)fst00901442

Diskurs. (DE-588)4012475-7

Diskursanalyse. (DE-588)4194747-2

Sozialökologie. (DE-588)4043208-7

Umweltschutz. (DE-588)4061644-7

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Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0814/2008014130.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2008014130-b.html

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In this study, Richard Alexander presentsnbsp;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 - Alexandernbsp;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.nbsp;For example, he asks:nbsp;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.