Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse) - Softcover

Alexander, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415888352 ISBN 13: 9780415888356

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites, advertisements, press articles, speeches and lectures – Alexander interrogates how, in the media, press, corporate and activist circles, language is employed to argue for and propagate selected positions on the growing ecological crisis. For example, he asks: How are ecological and environmental concerns articulated in texts? What do we learn about ecological ‘problems’ through texts from differing sources? What language features accompany ecological discourse in differing contexts and registers? Attention is especially directed at where this discourse comes into contact with business, economic and political concerns.

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About the Author

Richard J. Alexander, Full Professor of English Business Communication at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Publications include Aspects of Verbal Humour in English and New International Business English (co-author Leo Jones).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415888352
• ISBN 13: 9780415888356
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252