From carbon markets to carbon morality: Creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation

Science Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-54

  Koteyko, Nelya ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b   Nerlich, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change communication; Compounds; Cybermetrics; Frame analysis; Metaphor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949872404     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: 15528545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547009340421     Document Type: Article

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