Applied semantics and climate communication

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI:10.1075/aral.22028.bro

H. Bromhead, C. Goddard

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Abstract

This paper explores ways in which applied semantics (coming out of Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach) can inform effective communicative strategies for action on climate change. After framing discussion, it presents three case studies, which are intentionally disparate in nature: contrastive semantics of the expressions ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate emergency’, and ‘climate catastrophe’; a semantically-enhanced examination of how public inquiries into extreme weather events help shape climate discourse in Australia; the semantics of ‘the economy’ in everyday English and the implications for climate change discourse. We argue that climate action communication is clearer, more resonant, and more effective when it uses or builds on ordinary words and local meanings.

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应用语义学与气候通信

本文探讨了应用语义（源于自然语义元语言方法）如何为应对气候变化的有效沟通策略提供信息。在框架讨论之后，它提出了三个在性质上有意不同的案例研究：“气候危机”、“气候紧急情况”和“气候灾难”的对比语义；对公众对极端天气事件的调查如何帮助塑造澳大利亚的气候话语进行语义强化的研究；日常英语中“经济”的语义以及对气候变化话语的影响。我们认为，当气候行动沟通使用或建立在普通词语和当地含义的基础上时，它更清晰、更具共鸣性、更有效。

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.