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Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

Craig O. Stewart, Claire Rhodes
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781466650039|ISBN10: 1466650036|EISBN13: 9781466650046
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch016
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Stewart, Craig O., and Claire Rhodes. "Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy." Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere, edited by Roderick P. Hart, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 276-289. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch016

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Stewart, C. O. & Rhodes, C. (2014). Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy. In R. Hart (Ed.), Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere (pp. 276-289). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch016

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Stewart, Craig O., and Claire Rhodes. "Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy." In Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere, edited by Roderick P. Hart, 276-289. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch016

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Abstract

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

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