Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: The case of 'carbon indulgences'
Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: The case of 'carbon indulgences'
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Koteyko, Nelya
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作者：
Nerlich, Brigitte;Koteyko, Nelya
本文从语言学的角度探讨气候变化。气候变化是一个极其复杂的问题，近年来，专家和决策者以新的紧迫感思考这个问题。它促使了媒体、互联网、科普和文学领域的写作爆炸，以及围绕“碳”这个词的新化合物的扩散，比如“碳放纵”，这是本文将要研究的一种新化合物。通过对这些“碳化合物”的词汇和话语构成的语言学分析，我们的目标是促进对气候变化含义的更广泛理解。词汇碳化合物在这里被用作观察人类符号文化如何改变和适应环境威胁以及符号创新和传播如何发生的指标。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
This article deals with climate change from a linguistic perspective. Climate change is an extremely complex issue that has exercised the minds of experts and policy makers with renewed urgency in recent years. It has prompted an explosion of writing in the media, on the internet and in the domain of popular science and literature, as well as a proliferation of new compounds around the word 'carbon' as a hub, such as 'carbon indulgence', a new compound that will be studied in this article. Through a linguistic analysis of lexical and discourse formations around such 'carbon compounds' we aim to contribute to a broader understanding of the meaning of climate change. Lexical carbon compounds are used here as indicators for observing how human symbolic cultures change and adapt in response to environmental threats and how symbolic innovation and transmission occurs. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.