Sobre a necessidade de submeter o discurso ambiental contemporâneo à  investigação reflexiva

Authors

  • Richard Alexander Universidade de Viena

Keywords:

Corporate discourse; Environmental issues; Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus linguistics.

Abstract

This paper analyses discourses about environmental issues put into circulation by the transnational corporation BP from the combined approach of Critical Discourse Analysis corpus linguistics’ techniques. The study evaluated a number of press releases issued by the company between April 21 and June 23, 2010 due to the oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico at that time. Several linguistic aspects, as euphemisms and metaphors, have been mapped, besides terminological and lexical choices that contributed to draw the attention of the interlocutors from the real problems caused by the ecological crisis.

 

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Author Biography

Richard Alexander, Universidade de Viena

Inglês de nascimento, tendo estudado em Cambridge e Londres. Desde os 25 anos de idade tem exercido atividades de docência e pesquisa na Finlândia, Itália, Alemanha e Inglaterra. É professor de inglês comercial na Universidade de Economia de Viena desde 1994. Foi coorganizador de um simpósio sobre língua e ecologia no encontro da AILA em Amsterdam (1993) e de outro em Jyväskylä, Finlândia, em 1996. Suas áreas de interesse incluem léxico, fraseologia, a linguagem da economia, humor verbal e o ensino e aprendizagem de inglês comercial, além de ecolinguística. Tem contribuído com a maioria das coletâneas ecolinguística. Seu principal livro é Framing discourse on the envionment: A critical discourse approach (2009).

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Published

2015-10-11

How to Cite

Alexander, R. (2015). Sobre a necessidade de submeter o discurso ambiental contemporâneo à  investigação reflexiva. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 1(2), 39–64. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/10062

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015)

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