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Greenspeak: A Study of Environmental Discourse
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The Moral and Aesthetic Domain Environmental Discourses Linguistic Foundations Rhetorical Uses of Science Environmental Narratives The Power of Metaphor Temporal Dimensions Ethno-ecology Linguistics as EnvironmentalismAbstract:
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A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives
Maarten Hajer,Wytske Versteeg +1 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of environmental politics over the period of the past decade and highlight the role of language in politics, its capacity to reveal the embeddedness of language and its ability to answer "how" questions and to illuminate mechanisms.
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Motivational complexity of green consumerism
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of motivation is used as an analytical tool to analyze the motivation of green consumerism, arguing that as a private lifestyle project of a single individual, "green consumerism" is much too heavy a responsibility to bear.
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What is the ‘social construction of nature’? A typology and sympathetic critique
TL;DR: The authors distinguish two broad varieties of construction talk in the social sciences: construction-as-refutation and construction as-philosophical-critique, and identify four other, more radical sorts of constructions that use the construction metaphor to question the culture/nature, subject/object and representation/reality dualisms that provide the conventional philosophical foundation for distinguishing true conceptions of nature from false ones.
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Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China
Guobin Yang,Craig Calhoun +1 more
TL;DR: In early 2004, public controversies surrounding dam building on the Nu River prompted the Chinese government to halt the proposed hydropower project as discussed by the authors, indicating the rise of a green public sphere of critical environmental discourse.