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Author:   Kjersti Flottum (University of Bergen, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
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9781138209596

ISBN 10:   1138209597
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   04 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Mike Hulme 1 Language and climate change Kjersti Fløttum 2 Verbal and visual framing activity in climate change discourse: a multimodal analysis of media representations of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report Trine Dahl 3 Competing climate change narratives: an analysis of leader statements during COP21 in Paris Øyvind Gjerstad 4 Stories about climate change: The influence of language on Norwegian public opinion Michael D. Jones, Kjersti Fløttum, and Øyvind Gjerstad 5 Metaphors in online editorials and op-eds about climate change, 2006 - 2013: A study of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States Dimitrinka Atanasova and Nelya Koteyko 6 Conceptual metaphors associated with climate change in corporate annual reports: two perspectives from the United States and Australia Oleksandr Kapranov 7 Willingness of action Kjersti Fløttum 8 The Paris COP21 agreement – obligations for 195 countries Kjersti Fløttum and Helge Drange 9 Data-driven approaches to climate change discourse, illustrated through case studies of blogs and international climate negotiations Andrew Salway

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Kjersti Fløttum is professor of French linguistics at the Department of foreign languages, University of Bergen. Her research fields are text and genre theory and discourse analysis, with a special focus on linguistic polyphony in scientific, political and climate change discourse as well as on narrative structures in climate change discourse. Fløttum has headed several cross-disciplinary projects (KIAP, EURLING, LINGCLIM). She is co-author of the books ScaPoLine (2004) and Academic Voices (2006), and editor of Speaking to Europe (2013). She has published in international journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, Language & Communication, Text & Talk, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, Nature Climate Change, and in Oxford Research Encyclopedias.

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