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1	Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future / Förrädiska Ord : Hur konspirations- och klimatskeptiker använder konceptuella metaforer för att släcka vår framtid Chvostek, Ida-Maria January 2019 (has links) This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. These datasets showed that conspiracy scepticism was the most common type of scepticism used to discredit climate change data, scientists and environmental policies. In addition, the datasets indicate that conservative agents frequently used metaphors of WAR, RELIGION, HEALTH, BUILDING, JOURNEY, WATER and PRODUCT to convey negative frames. These domains linked to the conceptual key LIFE IS A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL and were presented in a moral context. In response to these findings it is suggested that the scientific community incorporate emotional language, metaphors and moral values when communicating environmental issues. United States of America conservative think tanks critical metaphor analysis IPCC framing General Language Studies and Linguistics
2	Investigating Potential Strategies Used by Climate Change Contrarians to Gain Legitimacy in Two Prominent U.S. and Two Prominent U.K. Newspapers from 1988 to 2006 Herman, Tess P. 01 June 2021 (has links) No description available. Environmental Science History International Relations Journalism Science History World History Climate change media global warming misinformation disinformation source hacking journalism science communication bias opportunity structures fake experts fake news conservative think tanks manufacturing doubt

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Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future / Förrädiska Ord : Hur konspirations- och klimatskeptiker använder konceptuella metaforer för att släcka vår framtid

Investigating Potential Strategies Used by Climate Change Contrarians to Gain Legitimacy in Two Prominent U.S. and Two Prominent U.K. Newspapers from 1988 to 2006