Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’

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Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: the case of ‘carbon indulgences’

This article deals with climate change from a linguistic perspective. Climate change is an extremely complex issue that has exercised the minds of experts and policy makers with renewed urgency in recent years. It has prompted an explosion of writing in the media, on the internet and in the domain o...

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Main Authors:	Nerlich, Brigitte, Koteyko, Nelya
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2009
Subjects:	Climate change; Discourse analysis; Compounds; Metaphors; Linguistic creativity; Ecolinguistics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1303/

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