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

Nerlich, Brigitte and Koteyko, Nelya (2009) Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’. Global Environmental Change, 19 (3). pp. 345-353. ISSN 0959-3780

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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.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1013641
Keywords: Climate change; Discourse analysis; Compounds; Metaphors; Linguistic creativity; Ecolinguistics
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology and Social Policy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001
Depositing User: Nerlich, Professor Brigitte
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2010 14:49
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:26
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1303

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