Richard Alexander

Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Alexander demonstrates the linguistic distractions, euphemisms and pitfalls of corporate-political discourse on the environment subjecting them to a trenchant analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991230
• ISBN-10: 0415991234
• Artikelnr.: 23800809

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Integrating the Ecological Issue
Chapter 3: Ecological Commitment in Business
Chapter 4: The Framing of Ecology
Chapter 5: Talking About 'Sustainable Development'
Chapter 6: Wording the World
Chapter 7: Shaping Environmental Discourse
Chapter 8: Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value
Chapter 9: Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?
Chapter 10: Language and Orwell's Problem
Chapter 11: Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Integrating the Ecological Issue 3. Ecological Commitment in Business 4. The Framing of Ecology 5. Talking About 'Sustainable Development' 6. Wording the World 7. Shaping Environmental Discourse 8. Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value 9. Engineering Agriculture. Who Pays the Price? 10. Language and Orwell's Problem 11. Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Rezensionen

"For anyone interested in language, ecology and politics, the book is an eye-opener and should be compulsory reading."--Alwin Fill, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik

"The survival of humanity depends on our ability to change the attitude most people have towards the environment and Alexander's work can help us follow the right direction."
- M. Cristina Caimotto, University of Torino, Italy