How grammatical choice shapes media representations of climate (un)certainty

Environmental Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 197-215

  Bailey, Adriana ^a   Giangola, Lorine ^a   Boykoff, Maxwell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

uncertainty

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EID: 84901021906     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.906481     Document Type: Article

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