From controversy to common ground

IF 1.7 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Julia Litofcenko, A. Vogler, Michael Meyer, Martin Mehrwald
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Abstract

Once a concept of the radical environmentalist movement, the term sustainability was incorporated into the hegemonic discourse. Prior research argues that this occurred through a process in which the original controversy between ecological and economic issues has evolved from an antagonist opposition to a broad concurrence. While this development has mainly been analysed qualitatively, we apply quantitative analysis of mass media in Austria between 1990 and 2020 to trace the changing use of the term. Applying methods of corpus linguistics, topic modelling, and dictionary based analysis, we find that the discourse has become less polarized over time, deploying increasingly positive language, and catering more and more towards the conservative parts of the population. Political actors’ presence declines significantly after 2000, and simultaneously, commercial and individual solutions are more widely discussed – everyone is responsible, and no one is to blame.
从争论到共识
可持续性一词曾经是激进环保主义运动的一个概念,被纳入了霸权话语。先前的研究认为,这是通过一个过程发生的,在这个过程中,生态和经济问题之间最初的争论已经从对立的反对演变为广泛的赞同。虽然这一发展主要是定性分析,但我们对1990年至2020年间奥地利的大众媒体进行了定量分析,以追踪该术语使用的变化。运用语料库语言学、话题建模和基于词典的分析方法,我们发现随着时间的推移,话语变得越来越不两极分化,越来越多地使用积极的语言,越来越多地迎合保守人群。2000年后,政治参与者的参与度显著下降,与此同时,商业和个人解决方案得到了更广泛的讨论——每个人都有责任,没有人应该受到指责。
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