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The second chapter presents numerous linguistic studies dealing with climate change discourse/politics. It discusses various studies about climate change in terms of how the problem and its aspects are reconstructed. These studies shed light on the role of language in constructing meanings and ideologies about such issues. They draw upon CDA and/or ecolinguistics approaches to study how language is used to frame climate change. In light of these studies, some gaps were identified. This book thus develops metaphor theory and analysis from cognitive perspectives and sheds light on politicians’ language itself. This chapter also shows the aims and objectives of this book.
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Al-Shboul, O.K. (2023). Climate Change Discourse/Politics in Linguistic Studies. In: The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19016-2_2
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