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Nerlich, Brigitte, Vyvyan Evans and Nelya Koteyko. 2011. Low carbon diet: Reducing the complexities of climate change to human scale. Language and Cognition 3 (1) : 45–82. 38 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Abstract

This paper aims to combine conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending theories with media and discourse analysis, in order to investigate the use of metaphorical language in the complex domain of climate change. In particular, it focuses on the use of a common lexical compound such as ‘low carbon diet’ which allowed US newspapers to reduce the complexities of climate change to human scale.