Corporate Climate Discourse across Global Divides

A Corpus Linguistic Study of Food and Beverage Corporations
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-45121-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics

Climate Change Discourse across Global Divides investigates how food and beverage corporations in the Global North and the Global South represent, evaluate and respond to climate change, drawing on a large corpus of corporate texts.

Bringing together Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies and the Appraisal Framework in a mixed-methods approach, this book illustrates the strategies companies use to shape public perceptions of climate change and environmental sustainability, showing how they carefully construct climate-related language to position themselves as responsible actors in the climate debate. The volume also provides an accessible account of corpus construction and analysis through the CRClim Corpus, combining corpus-driven and corpus-based methods with close qualitative interpretation. Del Gaudio explores patterns in climate-related language, including metaphor, modality, explicitness, emotion and opinion, and compares how corporate climate discourse varies across global contexts.

This monograph is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate in corpus linguistics, critical discourse studies, ecolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics, and climate change communication. It will also be of interest to scholars in environmental humanities, communication studies, business studies, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Del Gaudio, Arianna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Climate Change and Corporate Discourse 3 Climate Change in the Food and Beverage Industry 4 Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 5 Introducing the CRClim Corpus 6 Representing Climate Change 7 Appraising Climate Change 8 Comparing Climate Change across Global Divides 9 Concluding Remarks Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Arianna Del Gaudio holds a PhD in English Language, Translation and Linguistics from the University of Naples L’Orientale. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor of English Language, Translation, and Linguistics at the University of Naples L’Orientale, and a member of the Interuniversity Research Centre Dis-4Change.