Conceptual Metaphors Associated with Climate Change in Corporate Reports in the Fossil Fuels Market

Капранов, Олександр

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“…The frame "Anthropogenic Cause" is indicative of Statoil's awareness of human-induced climate change. It should be mentioned that this frame has not been identified in corporate discourse involving climate change by fossil fuel corporations in the US (Kapranov, 2017). In particular, Exxon has been reported to question the findings of climate scientists and to doubt the validity of scientific research involving greenhouse gases emissions (Kapranov, 2017).…”

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“…It should be mentioned that this frame has not been identified in corporate discourse involving climate change by fossil fuel corporations in the US (Kapranov, 2017). In particular, Exxon has been reported to question the findings of climate scientists and to doubt the validity of scientific research involving greenhouse gases emissions (Kapranov, 2017). Whilst a contrastive study of Exxon's and Statoil's climate change discourse is not the focus of this article, it seems pertinent to mention that Exxon, unlike Statoil, is a private corporation.…”

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“…Whilst a contrastive study of Exxon's and Statoil's climate change discourse is not the focus of this article, it seems pertinent to mention that Exxon, unlike Statoil, is a private corporation. Presumably, as a private actor, it enjoys comparative leeway in terms of its climate change discourse (Kapranov, 2017). Hence, Exxon frames its climate change discourse by foregrounding such frames as "Risk", "Challenge", "Natural Gas" and "Costs" (Kapranov, 2017a).…”

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“…Previous research suggests that BP and Shell, for instance, employ the framing strategy of their climate change discourse to facilitate comprehension and communication of the issue (Kapranov, 2017;Livesey, 2002). Specifically, it has been found that both BP and Shell make their climate change communication with the general public and the stakeholders comprehensible and more understandable by means of framing it via conceptual metaphors, such as "Corporate Response to Climate Change as a Journey" and "Corporation as a Climate Change Concerned Citizen" (Kapranov, forthcoming).…”

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The framing of climate change discourse by Statoil

Капранов

2018

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This article involves a qualitative framing analysis of climate change discourse by Statoil, a Norwegian-based energy corporation, which is considered to be a major actor in the Norwegian fossil fuels market. The corpus of the present framing analysis consists of Statoil’s annual sustainability reports from 2001 until 2015 available online at the official Statoil websitewww.statoil.com. The framing analysis is based upon the methodological approach to framing described by Dahl (2015). The specific research aim of the present investigation is twofold: i) to identify Statoil’s framing of climate change discourse and ii) to compare how the framing changed diachronically from the time of the first sustainability report published in 2001 until the 2015 Sustainability Report. The results of the framing analysis indicate that Statoil’s climate change discourse in 2001-2015 is framed by a number of qualitatively different frames that are unequally distributed in diachrony, e.g. “Anthropogenic Cause”, “Battle”, “Corporate Responsibility”, “Emissions Reduction” etc. These frames are further presented and discussed in the article.

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2018

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“…Nowadays, framing has gained acceptance as a methodological means of analysing a broad variety of discourses, inclusive of climate change discourse (Almiron et al, 2020;Araújo & Prior, 2021;Kapranov, 2018;Ophir et al, 2023;Scheufele, 2017). There is a widely accepted contention in the literature that the value of framing as a means of discourse analysis rests with casting light on (i) how a certain phenomenon, for instance, a political issue or public controversy is communicated to the public at large discursively, (ii) how the phenomenon is perceived by the public, and (iii) how the discursive representations of the phenomenon influence the public in terms of their choices and behaviour (Entman et al, 2009;Ophir et al, 2023;Tankard Jr, 2001).…”

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Between a Burden and Green Technology: Rishi Sunak’s Framing of Climate Change Discourse on Facebook and X (Twitter)

Kapranov

2024

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The issue of climate change has been one of the critical foci of political discourse worldwide (Wagner, 2023). Given that political debates and political discourse are quite often communicated on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), for instance Facebook and X (Araújo & Prior, 2021), it appears highly relevant to tap into political actors’ discourse on SNSs that addresses the issue of climate change. Guided by the importance of SNSs in political discourse on climate change, the present article introduces and discusses a study on how Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister of the United Kingdom (the UK), frames the issue of climate change on his official Facebook and X accounts. Specifically, the aim of the study was to identify the types of frames used in Sunak’s climate change discourse in a corpus of his posts on Facebook and X. The corpus was collected and analysed in accordance with the methodology proposed and developed by Entman (2007). The results of the analysis revealed that Sunak’s framing of climate change involved a pragmatic economy-oriented aspect, which was presented discursively by imparting it a personalised dimension that involved multimodality. In particular, it was discovered that Sunak frequently framed the issue of climate change via the frames Burden and Green Technology. The findings were discussed in conjunction with the prior research on framing in climate change discourse.

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A Detailed Overview of Theory: CDA, Ecolinguistics and Metaphor

Al-Shboul¹

2023

The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse

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Conceptual Metaphors Associated with Climate Change in Corporate Reports in the Fossil Fuels Market

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The framing of climate change discourse by Statoil

The framing of climate change discourse by Statoil

Between a Burden and Green Technology: Rishi Sunak’s Framing of Climate Change Discourse on Facebook and X (Twitter)

A Detailed Overview of Theory: CDA, Ecolinguistics and Metaphor

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