The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies) - Softcover

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Kjersti Fløttum is professor of French linguistics at the Department of foreign languages, University of Bergen. Her research fields are text and genre theory and discourse analysis, with a special focus on linguistic polyphony in scientific, political and climate change discourse as well as on narrative structures in climate change discourse. Fløttum has headed several cross-disciplinary projects (KIAP, EURLING, LINGCLIM). She is co-author of the books ScaPoLine (2004) and Academic Voices (2006), and editor of Speaking to Europe (2013). She has published in international journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, Language & Communication, Text & Talk, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, Nature Climate Change, and in Oxford Research Encyclopedias.