Throwing Soup at Van Gogh: The Framing of Art in Climate Change Activism by British Mass Media

Капранов, Олександр

doi:10.2478/doc-2023-0008

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“…The issue of climate change continues to represent an ongoing challenge (Kapranov, 2022a(Kapranov, , 2023aLofthouse & Herzberg, 2023), which is characterised by a wide range of profound repercussions that involve corporate, societal, and health-related aspects (Agache et al, 2022;Kapranov, 2015;Paz et al, 2016). In terms of the intersection between the issue of climate change and health, the literature points out to "the varied and substantial effects of climate change on human health and wellbeing" (Kotcher et al, 2021, p. 316).…”

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Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health

Kapranov

2023

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

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The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with modal verbs (e.g., must, would, etc.), is represented in English-medium research articles (henceforth – RAs) that are published in specialised scientific journals that focus on the intersection of climate change-related research and health. The aim of the study was to collect a corpus of RAs published in the international peer-reviewed journals Eco-Environment and Health and The Journal of Climate Change and Health and examine the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs in order to determine the most frequent modals in the corpus. To that end, the corpus was analysed in the software program AntConc (Antony, 2022) in order to establish the frequency of the central modal verbs in English, such as can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. The results of the quantitative investigation revealed that can and may were the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus. The findings were discussed through the lens of the discourse on climate change and health.

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Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health

Kapranov

2023

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

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“…The literature in applied linguistics and discourse studies has established that pragmatic roles of modal verbs are associated with the expression of the author's personal attitudes and assessments of the status of knowledge in a text (Hyland 2005; Hyland and Jiang 2016; Kapranov 2023a), hedging (i.e., the author's mitigation of the claims and the style of presentation), and boosting that consists in the author's presentation of the claims in an assertive manner (Hyland 2005;Hyland and Jiang 2016). Based upon the literature (Fløttum 2010;Hyland 2005;Hyland and Jiang 2016;Kapranov 2022aKapranov , 2023b, the present article introduces and discusses a corpus-assisted study that seeks to identify the frequency of the occurrence of the central modal verbs, such as can/could, may/might, must, shall/should, and will/would and uncover their pragmatic roles in sustainability reports that are communicated online by the most prestigious and world-renowned universities in the UK, namely the University of Cambridge (UC) and the University of Oxford (UO).Whilst HEIs in the UK have a long history of addressing and communicating the issues of sustainability and sustainable development to the faculty, students and public at large (Lozano…”

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Modal Verbs in Sustainability Reports by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford

Kapranov

2023

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This article presents and discusses a study on modal verbs in sustainability reports that are communicated online by the University of Cambridge (UC) and the University of Oxford (UO) in the United Kingdom. The study is based upon a contention proposed by Fløttum (2010), who posits that modal verbs are used in sustainability discourse as micro-linguistic means that are involved in a range of pragma-communicative strategies. Following Fløttum (2010), the present study seeks i) to establish the frequency of the occurrence of the so-called “central” modal verbs, i.e. can/could, may/might, must, shall/should, and will/would and ii) to identify their involvement in the programa-communicative strategies in the sustainability reports by UC and UO. The sustainability reports by UC and UO were analysed in the computer program AntConc version 4.0.11 (Anthony, 2022) in order to compute the frequency of the central modal verbs. Thereafter, they were analysed qualitatively to establish their relationship with a range of pragma-communicative strategies that were employed in the sustainability reports by UC and UO, respectively. The quantitative computer-assisted analysis indicated that can and will were the most frequent modal verbs in the UC’s and UO’s sustainability reports. However, the qualitative investigation demonstrated that can and will were associated with different pragma-communicative strategies in the reports. The findings were further discussed in the article.

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Metonymy in Online Discourse on Facebook by Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Kapranov

2023

LANGUAGE: Codification, Competence, Communication

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Greenpeace Australia Pacific is an “independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems” (Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 2023), such as the issues of climate change and environmental sustainability. The aforementioned problems are often communicated by Greenpeace Australia Pacific to its stakeholders and the general public via online means, for instance, Facebook. Given that currently there is insufficient research that investigates Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s online discourse on Facebook, this article presents a mixed-methods study that aims to explore how metonymy is used in disseminating environmental and climate change-related issues by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. In order to do so, the study involves a corpus of status updates that are found on Greenpeace Australia Pacific’ official Facebook page. The corpus is searched manually for the presence of metonymy and the types of metonymic mappings. The results of the qualitative analysis indicate that there are the following metonymic mappings in the corpus: “from a fossil fuel corporation to a polluter”, “from the name of the corporation to its actions”, “from the name of the country to the country’s government”, “from the name of the environmental organisation to its actions”, and “from the name of the vessel to its actions”. Thereafter, a quantitative analysis of the corpus is carried out in order to calculate the most frequent types of metonymic mappings. The results indicate that the metonymic mapping “from the name of the corporation to its actions” is the most frequent in the corpus, whose occurrence is concomitant with multimodality. These findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.

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Throwing Soup at Van Gogh: The Framing of Art in Climate Change Activism by British Mass Media

Cited by 3 publications

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Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health

Modal Verbs in English-Medium Research Articles on the Issue of Climate Change and Health

Modal Verbs in Sustainability Reports by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford

Metonymy in Online Discourse on Facebook by Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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