Different contexts, different "stories" ? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change

Language and Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-23

  Fløttum, Kjersti ^a   Dahl, Trine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis text linguistics; Modality; Polyphony; Pragmatics; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856352068     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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