Metaphors in texts about climate change
This article discusses the use of metaphors and metonyms in texts about climate change in different registers, with a particular focus on the information given to young people, and what they understand about the topic. It begins by considering the role of metaphorical thinking and language in scienc...
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ftdialnet:oai:dialnet.unirioja.es:ART0001231458 2023-05-15T13:58:15+02:00 Metaphors in texts about climate change Deignan, Alice 2017 application/pdf https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6181245 eng eng https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6181245 (Revista) ISSN 1139-7241 LICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), ISSN 1139-7241, Nº. 34, 2017, pags. 45-66 metaphor science climate change education schools metáfora ciencia cambio climático educación escuelas text (article) 2017 ftdialnet 2019-10-14T08:21:31Z This article discusses the use of metaphors and metonyms in texts about climate change in different registers, with a particular focus on the information given to young people, and what they understand about the topic. It begins by considering the role of metaphorical thinking and language in science, and reviews some of the work on scientific metaphor in expert and popular genres. The article analyses the different functions of metaphors in two texts about anthropogenic climate change from different genres, arguing that in the popular text analysed metaphors tend to have the function of entertaining and dramatizing, and introducing and concluding (interpersonal and textual), as opposed to their informational (ideational) function in the research article that was analysed. I then discuss a corpus and discourse analysis of young people’s talk about climate change. The young people’s use of figurative language is compared with that of researchers and educationalists. The analysis finds that, consistent with work on scientific popularisations, written texts for non-specialists tend to “open up” in Knudsen’s (2003) terms experts’ metaphors, extending them creatively. I found that on occasion this seems to lead to, or reflect, misunderstandings of the underlying science. I also find that young people reference Arctic and Antarctic animals as symbols of the problem of climate change. Este artículo discute el uso de las metáforas y metonimias en los textos sobre el cambio climático en diferentes registros, con un interés especial en la información proporcionada a la gente joven, y en lo que ellos entienden sobre el tema. El artículo comienza considerando el papel del razonamiento metafórico y del lenguaje en la ciencia y revisa el trabajo de las metáforas científicas en los géneros expertos y populares. El artículo analiza las diferentes funciones de las metáforas en dos textos sobre el cambio climático antropogénico en diferentes géneros y defiende que en los textos populares analizados las metáforas tienden a ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Climate change Dialnet - Portada de revistas (Universidad de La Rioja) Arctic Antarctic |
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This article discusses the use of metaphors and metonyms in texts about climate change in different registers, with a particular focus on the information given to young people, and what they understand about the topic. It begins by considering the role of metaphorical thinking and language in science, and reviews some of the work on scientific metaphor in expert and popular genres. The article analyses the different functions of metaphors in two texts about anthropogenic climate change from different genres, arguing that in the popular text analysed metaphors tend to have the function of entertaining and dramatizing, and introducing and concluding (interpersonal and textual), as opposed to their informational (ideational) function in the research article that was analysed. I then discuss a corpus and discourse analysis of young people’s talk about climate change. The young people’s use of figurative language is compared with that of researchers and educationalists. The analysis finds that, consistent with work on scientific popularisations, written texts for non-specialists tend to “open up” in Knudsen’s (2003) terms experts’ metaphors, extending them creatively. I found that on occasion this seems to lead to, or reflect, misunderstandings of the underlying science. I also find that young people reference Arctic and Antarctic animals as symbols of the problem of climate change. Este artículo discute el uso de las metáforas y metonimias en los textos sobre el cambio climático en diferentes registros, con un interés especial en la información proporcionada a la gente joven, y en lo que ellos entienden sobre el tema. El artículo comienza considerando el papel del razonamiento metafórico y del lenguaje en la ciencia y revisa el trabajo de las metáforas científicas en los géneros expertos y populares. El artículo analiza las diferentes funciones de las metáforas en dos textos sobre el cambio climático antropogénico en diferentes géneros y defiende que en los textos populares analizados las metáforas tienden a ... |
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