Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change
Edited by Franzisca Weder
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 (2023) vi, 202 pp.
Franzisca Weder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Franzisca Weder plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament: Resurrecting Aristotle’s deliberative rhetoric as means to ethical, rational, and constructive climate change debate Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change, Weder, Franzisca (ed.), pp. 622–639 | Article
In this conceptual paper, we differentiate between political decisions and the conversations where these decisions are discussed and facilitated. We complement existing work on argumentation in political communication by applying Aristotle’s Rhetoric to the study of climate change debate. We… read more
2023 Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change: Perspectives on communication for sustainability as new “norm” and principle of action in socio-ecological transformation processes Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change, Weder, Franzisca (ed.), pp. 577–600 | Article
Sustainability has been well used (and abused) as “buzz-word”, label or language token for certain behavior and action in political, organizational and increasingly in individual communication. Based on critical approaches in language, discourse and communication studies, the paper explores… read more