Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles

Uncertainty is intrinsic to science, to knowledge acquisition and risk assessment. When communicating about climate change however, uncertainty can be used and understood as ‘not knowing’, i.e. as ignorance. In this article we aim to understand how ‘uncertainty’ is used in a specific cultural and me...

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Main Authors: Collins, Luke C., Nerlich, Brigitte
Format: Article
Published: De Gruyter 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37495/