Climate in the News: How Differences in Media Discourse Between the US and UK Reflect National Priorities
Climate in the News: How Differences in Media Discourse Between the US and UK Reflect National Priorities
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新闻中的气候：美国和英国媒体话语的差异如何反映国家优先事项
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2012
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David Clarke
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B. Nerlich;R. Forsyth;David Clarke
在过去十年左右的时间里，与媒体对气候变化本身的报道一起，关于媒体对气候变化报道的研究稳步增加。本文旨在两个层面上为这一不断增长的文献做出贡献：加深对讲共同语言的国家之间语言使用的独特模式的理解，并展示一种新方法对寻找这种模式的有用性。我们使用计算语言学相关的方法对2000年至2009年发表在《伦敦时报》和《纽约时报》上的文章进行了分析。结果表明，美国似乎仍然将气候变化视为一个问题，而英国则专注于为气候变化（既定）问题寻找解决方案。这种语言和概念上的差距可能妨碍相互理解和制定全球气候变化减缓政策。
Studies dealing with media coverage of climate change have increased steadily over the last decade or so, alongside the media coverage of climate change itself. This article aims to contribute to this growing literature on two levels: to deepen understanding of distinctive patterns of language use across nations speaking a common language and to demonstrate the usefulness of a new approach for finding such patterns. Articles in The (London) Times and the New York Times, published between 2000 and 2009, were analyzed using methods related to computational linguistics. Results show that the US seemingly still constructs climate change as a problem, whereas the UK focuses on finding solutions for the (established) problem of climate change. This linguistic and conceptual gap may hamper mutual understanding and the crafting of global climate change mitigation policies.