Arguing for climate policy through the linguistic construction of narratives and voices: The case of the South-African green paper "National Climate Change Response"

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-430

  Fløttum, Kjersti ^a   Gjerstad, Øyvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; PAPER;

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; CLIMATE POLICY; GREEN PAPER; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MICRO LEVEL; NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNMENT; LANGUAGE; NATIONAL STRATEGY;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; PAPER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84876684481     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0654-7     Document Type: Article

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