Richard Alexander

Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Alexander demonstrates the linguistic distractions, euphemisms and pitfalls of corporate-political discourse on the environment subjecting them to a trenchant analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991230
• ISBN-10: 0415991234
• Artikelnr.: 23800809

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Alexander, Full Professor of English Business Communication at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Publications include Aspects of Verbal Humour in English and New International Business English (co-author Leo Jones).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Integrating the Ecological Issue
Chapter 3: Ecological Commitment in Business
Chapter 4: The Framing of Ecology
Chapter 5: Talking About 'Sustainable Development'
Chapter 6: Wording the World
Chapter 7: Shaping Environmental Discourse
Chapter 8: Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value
Chapter 9: Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?
Chapter 10: Language and Orwell's Problem
Chapter 11: Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index