Metaphor and argumentation in climate crisis discourse / Anaïs Augé.

Conceptualisations of the environment -- Cognitive bias and argumentation : the personification of the environment -- The role of metaphors in the climate change debate : the political relevance of the topic -- Metaphors in argumentative texts : a corpus study -- Metaphors of environmental optimism : climate change mitigation -- Metaphors of environmental pessimism : uncontrollable climate crisis -- Global climate (in)justice : metaphorical emphasis on responsibilities -- "Earth to COP" : international dialogue with the most affected people and areas (MAPA) -- Climate justice : overlapping crises in metaphorical discourse.

"This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on climate change, this book offers an alternative view, one which posits that metaphors can go beyond disseminating scientific observations to promoting biases in the depiction of these observations. Auge analyses oft-used ideas in climate change communication, such as carbon footprint, drawn from a wide-ranging corpus spanning media discourse, scientific discourse, NGO communications, political speech, and everyday speech in English. The book presents an overview of different arguments conveyed through metaphors around five key themes-climate change mitigation; the evolution of climate change; global and local effects; the significance of climate change in specific countries; and the relationship between climate change and other contemporary social issues. The volume highlights how the complexity of climate change often necessitates the use of metaphor and the value of further research on metaphor's argumentative function in elucidating its ideological dimensions in climate change discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and environmental communication"-- Provided by publisher.