Climate in the news: How differences in media discourse between the US and UK reflect national priorities

Environmental Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-63

  Nerlich, Brigitte ^a   Forsyth, Richard ^b   Clarke, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate Change; Computational Linguistics; Media; United Kingdom; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859186900     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2011.644633     Document Type: Review

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