Revealing and Reframing Apocalyptic Tragedy in Global Warming Discourse
Revealing and Reframing Apocalyptic Tragedy in Global Warming Discourse
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DOI：
10.1080/17524030902916624
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Murphy, William O'Shannon
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作者：
Foust, Christina R.;Murphy, William O'Shannon
本文通过对美国精英和大众媒体对全球变暖的报道进行批判性的修辞分析，探讨了世界末日框架的结构存在和含义。我们发现，世界末日修辞学的特征--一种线性的时间性，强调一个或多或少超出人类机构权限的灾难性终点--渗透到选定的话语中。世界末日框架的两个变体影响了人类的机构：悲剧性的启示录将全球变暖构成了一个宇宙命运的问题；而滑稽的启示录表明，错误的人类有能力影响(在一定范围内)全球变暖叙事的结束。最后，我们提出了构建气候变化传播方式的建议，使更多的公众成为减缓全球变暖的积极倡导者和参与者。
Through a critical rhetorical analysis of US elite and popular press coverage of global warming, this essay explores the structuring presence and implications of apocalyptic framing. We found that the hallmarks of apocalyptic rhetoric-a linear temporality emphasizing a catastrophic end-point that is more or less outside the purview of human agency-permeate selected discourse. Two variants of the apocalyptic frame impact human agency: tragic apocalypse constitutes global warming as a matter of cosmic Fate; and comic apocalypse suggests that mistaken humans have a capacity to influence (within limits) the global warming narrative's end. We conclude with suggestions for structuring climate change communication in ways that enable more members of the public to become active advocates for, and participants in, mitigating global warming.