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Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’

Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya

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Authors

Brigitte Nerlich

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
Publication Date Aug 1, 2009
Deposit Date Jun 25, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
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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