‘Broad consensus across the divide’: rhetorical constructions of climate change in mainstream news media

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.contributor.authorCrawford L
dc.contributor.authorBreheny M
dc.contributor.authorMansvelt J
dc.contributor.authorHill S
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-30T02:13:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T04:55:18Z
dc.date.available2023-10-30T02:13:17Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T04:55:18Z
dc.date.issued2019-05
dc.description.abstractThe links between science and policy are navigated prominently in the media. The internet provides a forum for discussion of climate change, allowing lay people to enter the debate. In this paper, rhetorical analysis was used to analyse online news articles and comments from the public following two major climate-related decisions in New Zealand. This analysis demonstrates how arguments regarding climate change are built and defended. Identifying strategies invoked by those that occupy a majority or minority position within public discourse on climate change reveals how such arguments take on rhetorical force, providing the basis for establishing claims and counter-arguments. Understanding the rhetorical constructions of such positions can reveal why particular arguments might gain power, opening the way for a more knowledgeable and informed positioning of individuals, organisations, and scientific knowledge to emerge in public debates on climate change.
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dc.format.pagination23-37
dc.identifier.citationCrawford L, Breheny M, Mansvelt J, Hill S. (2018). ‘Broad consensus across the divide’: rhetorical constructions of climate change in mainstream news media. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online. 1. (pp. 23-37).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1177083X.2018.1503605
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1177-083X
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69022
dc.publisherThe Royal Society of New Zealand
dc.relation.isPartOfKotuitui: New Zealand Journal Of Social Sciences Online
dc.rights(c) 2018 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectnews
dc.subjectconstructions
dc.title‘Broad consensus across the divide’: rhetorical constructions of climate change in mainstream news media
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id444297
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