Diskursno oblikovanje klimatskih promjena u anglofonim i hrvatskim izvorima informiranja
Discursive construction of climate change in anglophone and Croatian online news media
Author(s): Snježana Veselica Majhut, Marina Grubišić, Ivana BašićSubject(s): Media studies, Physical Geopgraphy, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Human Ecology, Philology
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: climate change; discourse analysis; discourse practices; topoi; social actors; Croatian language; English language; ecolinguistics;
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents findings of an exploratory research into the ways of discursively constructing the role of humans in climate change. Relying on the broad framework of ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis, the authors conducted a comparative qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts published in Croatian and anglophone media in a limited, randomly chosen period. The aim of the research was to establish what »stories« (Stibbe 2015) related to this important social problem are given prominence in the analyzed corpus of Croatian and anglophone media texts, what points of common knowledge, i.e.«topoi« (Wodak 2001) are activated in the interpretation of these stories and what strategies of constructing »social actors« are used in the two corpora. The contrastive qualitative analysis makes it possible to gain insight into the differences in the focus of reporting, prominence given to particular (sub)topics in particular communities and rhetorical strategies used in shaping the discourse on climate change.
Journal: Suvremena lingvistika
- Issue Year: 46/2020
- Issue No: 89
- Page Range: 1-23
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Croatian
