SELF-MENTIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE DISCOURSE BY KING CHARLES III
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Jun 13, 2024
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a corpus-assisted study, climate change discourse, King Charles III, self-mentions
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Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, and discourse studies (Grist 2008; Isopp 2024; Nerlich et al. 2010). Anchored in a quantitative linguistic paradigm, the article presents a mixed-methods study on the use of self-mentions (for instance, I, we, etc.) in a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study aims at establishing the frequencies of the occurrence of self-mentions and learning about their pragmatic roles in the corpus. To that end, the corpus of King Charles III’s speeches on climate change was collected and analysed. The results of the corpus analysis indicated that I was the most frequent self-mention, which King Charles III utilised in order to impart a personalised dimension to his discourse on climate change. The findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.
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Kapranov, Oleksandr. 2024. “SELF-MENTIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE DISCOURSE BY KING CHARLES III”. Journal of Contemporary Philology 7 (1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP2471029k.
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Kapranov, O. (2022). The syntax of climate change: Syntactic means in the construction of Greta Thunberg’s community identity on Facebook. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Philologia, 67 (4): 15–33. https://doi.org/ 10.24193/subbphilo.2022.4.01.
Kapranov, O. (2023a). Throwing soup at Van Gogh: The framing of art in climate change activism by British mass media. Discourses on Culture, 19 (1): 175–200. https://doi.org/10.2478/doc-2023-0008.
Kapranov, O. (2023b). Metonymy in online discourse on Facebook by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Language: Codification, Competence, Communication, 2 (9): 7–25. https://doi.org/10.24025/2707-0573.9.2024.292828.
Kapranov, O. (2023c). Modal verbs in English-medium research articles on the issue of climate change and health. Acta Marisiensis. Philologia, 5 (5): 38–48. https://doi.org/10.2478/amph-2023-0084.
Kapranov, O. (2023d). Modality in sustainability discourse by Harrods and Liberty: Analysing British cultural icons’ discursive practices. Cultural Perspectives-Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania, 28: 85–116.
Karahan, P. (2013). Self-mention in scientific articles written by Turkish and non-Turkish authors. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 70: 305–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.01.068.
Kashiha, H. (2022). On persuasive strategies: Metadiscourse practices in political speeches. Discourse and Interaction, 15 (1): 77–100. https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2022-1-77.
Maňáková, M. (2021). Self-mention in the academic discourse of ELF writers. Topics in Linguistics, 22 (2): 32–46. https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2021-0009.
Nerlich, B., Koteyko, N. and Brown, B. (2010). Theory and language of climate change communication. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1 (1): 97–110. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.2.
Olmos-Lopez, P., Prudencio, F. E. and Novelo, A. (2022). Mexican economics professors’ publication: Three case studies. English for Specific Purposes, 66: 131–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.01.002.
O’Neill, S. J., Boykoff, M., Niemeyer, S., and Day, S. A. (2013). On the use of imagery for climate change engagement. Global Environmental Change, 23 (2): 413–421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.11.006.
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