Environmental discourse in a political and gender perspective. A corpus-based study
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https://doi.org/10.15162/2974-8933/1694Keywords:
Corpus, climate, metaphor, gender, politics, corpus, clima, metafora, genere, politicaAbstract
This study adopts a political and gender perspective to investigate discourse on climate change and environmental protection. After an introductory analysis of the current state of the art in the subject area, the research moves into the realm of corpus linguistics to examine some typical metaphors and rhetorical devices, underlying climate discourse in social media and quality newspapers. The end results show that, based on a skilful use of specific language ploys, environmental narrative markedly varies depending on the political objectives pursued.
Questo studio adotta una prospettiva politica e di genere per indagare il discorso sul cambiamento climatico e la protezione ambientale. Dopo un’analisi introduttiva sullo stato dell’arte nella relativa area di ricerca, l’indagine muove nell’ambito della linguistica dei corpora per esaminare alcune metafore tipiche e dispositivi retorici che sostanziano il discorso sul clima nei social media e nella stampa. I risultati dimostrano come il discorso ambientale, basato sull’abile uso di specifici stratagemmi linguistici, differisca notevolmente in funzione degli obiettivi politici perseguiti.
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