Responsibility, Sustainability, and Threat: The Framing of Climate Change by King Charles III
Responsibility, Sustainability, and Threat: The Framing of Climate Change by King Charles III

Summary/Abstract: The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia ofinterconnected variables, which involve political, societal, as well as ethicaland moral considerations associated with empathy, responsibility,sustainability, and solidarity (Sadler-Smith & Akstinaite 2022). Due to thesereasons, research in climate change discourse has gained currency in thepresent-day linguistic and mass media studies. One of the means of exploringhow corporate and political actors view the issue of global climate changeinvolves framing, which is copiously applied in linguistic, mass media, anddiscourse-related research directions (Gillings & Dayrell 2024; Schlichting2013). To-date, however, little is known about how climate change discourseis framed by the current British monarch King Charles III. This contributionpresents a qualitative study that explores the way climate change discourse isframed by King Charles III. The study involves a corpus of speeches on thetopic of climate change delivered by King Charles III from 2005 to 2023. Thecorpus was analysed qualitatively in line with the framing methodologydeveloped by Entman (1993, 2004, 2007). The analysis revealed that climatechange was framed as A 2 Degree World, Deforestation, Responsibility, Risk,Sustainability, Threat, and Urgency. The findings and their discussion arefurther described in the article.

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