Carbon Reduction Activism in the UK: Lexical Creativity and Lexical Framing in the Context of Climate Change

Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya

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“…However, as metaphorical communication is central to our understanding of experience and to how we act upon that understanding, 24 it follows that the metaphorical references used to describe climate change direct a certain response behaviour. Together with other studies of the use of metaphor in climate change communication, we know that greenhouse, game, and war metaphors circulate together with gold rush, Wild West, and cowboy metaphors 33 and a new category of terms, i.e., "carbon compounds", 31,32 as explanations of climate change, rendering this abstract concept more concrete and easier to grasp.…”

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“…They can conclude that, although the metaphor of nature as a stock is insufficient to capture the unpredictability of climate change, 29 media and the global Internet community still portray climate change using metaphorical representations of stability and balance, thereby missing the importance of flux and change in the natural world. 30 Research into the use of metaphor in climate change communication provides us with insight into the emergence of a new terms, what may be called "carbon compounds", i.e., lexical combinations of at least two roots, such as "carbon finance", "low-carbon diet", 31 "carbon finance", "carbon tax", and "carbon sinner", 32 used in debating climate change mitigation. Furthermore, gold rush, Wild West, and cowboy metaphors are found in business and finance newspapers to make carbon trading and offsetting seem less complex and more familiar.…”

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Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

Asplund¹

2011

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Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

Asplund¹

2011

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“…However, so far ecolinguists have not yet studied the influence of lexical compounds on environmental discourses or the influence of environmental discourse on the emergence of new compounds, including metaphorical ones (but see now Nerlich and Koteyko 2009a, b;Koteyko et al 2010). This article examines one compound very closely employing a mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches related to what one may call 'soft' content analysis, and using Lexis Nexis Academic as a database.…”

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‘Low carbon’ metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation

Nerlich

2011

Climatic Change

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Dealing with the threat of anthropogenic climate change has been a challenge for policy makers for a long time. In recent years, the problems posed by climate change and solutions proposed to mitigate its effects have been framed by lexical 'carbon compounds', such as carbon footprint or carbon trading and by one dominant metaphor, the market metaphor. Through a detailed content analysis of industry and press coverage from 1985 to the present, this paper examines the fate of one important lexical compound in this context, namely low carbon, which can be used as an adjective or a noun. Over the last two decades this lexical compound moved across and between three discourses, the steel industry, the car industry and what one might call the climate change industry. Using insights from ecolinguistics and the sociology of expectations, the paper discusses how the lexical compound low carbon in general and the metaphor low carbon future in particular came to prominence in policy discourses, especially in the UK, and how they were used to frame expectations of a prosperous low carbon future, while sidelining deeper social and cultural reflections on climate change mitigation.

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“…Expanding on this research, our study shifts the focus from public perceptions to professional perceptions of CCS, an often-overlooked area of study in the social and cultural dimensions of CCS. Finally, this paper contributes to environmental communication and scholarship, more generally through its focus on the importance of understanding the rhetoric of CCS professionals to controversies over climate mitigation strategies and energy policy (e.g., Moser & Dilling, 2007;Nerlich & Koteyko, 2009.…”

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Southwestern United States Carbon Sequestration Training Center

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The Southwest CO 2 Training Center was initiated in November 2009 in response to the need to develop a generation of workers with expertise in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). Three universities ran the Training Center cooperatively: New Mexico Tech, the University of Utah and Texas A&M University. The overall approach of the Training Center was to conduct education and outreach at a wide range of educational levels, including K-12 students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, and the general Overall we offered 60 CEU credits and 2,598 hours of professional training. A business plan was developed to continue the Training Center's CCUS education into the future. This involves a collaborative agreement with Schlumberger Carbon Services using the expertise and on-line materials developed by the Training Center for a commercial professional development website.

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Carbon Reduction Activism in the UK: Lexical Creativity and Lexical Framing in the Context of Climate Change

Cited by 35 publications

References 23 publications

Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines

‘Low carbon’ metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation

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