Brigitte Nerlich
Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’
Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya
Authors
Nelya Koteyko
Abstract
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.
Citation
Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2009). Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’. Global Environmental Change, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Aug 1, 2009 |
Deposit Date | Jun 25, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 25, 2010 |
Journal | Global Environmental Change |
Print ISSN | 0959-3780 |
Electronic ISSN | 0959-3780 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 3 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001 |
Keywords | Climate change; Discourse analysis; Compounds; Metaphors; Linguistic creativity; Ecolinguistics |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1013641 |
Publisher URL | http://www.elsevier.com/www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha |
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