Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

By:

Richard Alexander

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

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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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

January 6th, 2011

Author

Richard Alexander

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

96 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

240

Series

Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

ISBN-13

9780415888356

Product ID

11118779

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