'Low carbon' metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation
'Low carbon' metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation
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“低碳”金属、市场和隐喻：创造缓解气候变化的经济预期
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10.1007/s10584-011-0055-3
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2011
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4.8
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Nerlich B
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Nerlich B
长期以来，应对人为气候变化的威胁一直是决策者面临的挑战。近年来，气候变化所带来的问题以及为减轻其影响而提出的解决方案已经被词汇“碳化合物”所框定，如碳足迹碳交易和一个占主导地位的隐喻，市场隐喻。本文通过对1985年至今的工业和新闻报道的详细内容分析，考察了一个重要的词汇复合词“low carbon”在这一语境中的命运，它既可以用作形容词，也可以用作名词。在过去的二十年里，这个词汇复合词在三个话语之间移动，钢铁行业，汽车行业和人们可能称之为气候变化行业。运用生态语言学和期望社会学的观点，本文讨论了词汇复合词low carbon in general和隐喻词low carbon futurein particularly是如何在政策话语中凸显出来的，尤其是在英国，以及它们是如何被用来构建对一个令人不安的低碳未来的期望，而忽视了对减缓气候变化的更深层次的社会和文化反思。
Dealing with the threat of anthropogenic climate change has been a challenge for policy makers for a long time. In recent years, the problems posed by climate change and solutions proposed to mitigate its effects have been framed by lexical ‘carbon compounds’, such ascarbon footprintorcarbon tradingand by one dominant metaphor, the market metaphor. Through a detailed content analysis of industry and press coverage from 1985 to the present, this paper examines the fate of one important lexical compound in this context, namelylow carbon, which can be used as an adjective or a noun. Over the last two decades this lexical compound moved across and between three discourses, the steel industry, the car industry and what one might call the climate change industry. Using insights from ecolinguistics and the sociology of expectations, the paper discusses how the lexical compoundlow carbonin general and the metaphorlow carbon futurein particular came to prominence in policy discourses, especially in the UK, and how they were used to frame expectations of a prosperouslow carbon future, while sidelining deeper social and cultural reflections on climate change mitigation.