Changing discourses of climate change: building social-ecological resilience cross-culturally

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI:10.1515/text-2020-0078
A. Plastina
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Abstract Social-ecological resilience (SER) is setting a new trend of thinking about environmental issues since it considers climate unpredictability as the norm in the Anthropocene and climate disturbance as offering opportunities for change. This paper argues that SER can be conceptualized as a function of narrative text and talk in the recent practice of online environmental activism. Based on a case study, the investigation explores a TED talk by the US environmentalist, Al Gore, and a web-based text by the Indian activist, Vandana Shiva, seeking how meanings of climate change enhance resilience building. A mixed-method research design is used to perform a discursive frame analysis on the sample discourses, guided by key resilience-building principles, and framed by the methods of critical discourse and frame analyses. The twofold aim is to analyse how micro-linguistic features mediate social-ecological memory and novelty as key SER drivers, and how macro-discursive frames are selected to shape meanings cross-culturally. Based on these findings, the comparative analysis at the socio-discursive level highlights how SER ideologies underpinning these discourses particularly diverge in the context of the Global North/Global South divide. Overall, the study findings shed light on the multiple meanings of SER shaping more constructive responses to climate change.
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不断变化的气候变化话语:建立跨文化的社会生态弹性
社会生态恢复力(SER)将气候不可预测性视为人类世的常态,将气候扰动视为变化的机遇,为环境问题的思考开辟了新的思路。本文认为,在最近的网络环境行动主义实践中,SER可以被概念化为叙事文本和谈话的功能。在案例研究的基础上,调查探讨了美国环保主义者阿尔·戈尔的TED演讲和印度活动家Vandana Shiva的网络文本,以寻求气候变化的意义如何增强韧性建设。混合方法研究设计用于对样本话语进行话语框架分析,以关键的弹性建设原则为指导,并以批评话语和框架分析方法为框架。本研究的双重目的是分析微观语言特征如何介导社会生态记忆和新颖性作为SER的关键驱动因素,以及宏观话语框架如何被选择以跨文化塑造意义。基于这些发现,社会话语层面的比较分析强调了支撑这些话语的SER意识形态如何在全球北方/全球南方分裂的背景下特别分化。总体而言,研究结果揭示了SER形成对气候变化更具建设性响应的多重含义。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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