Abstract
This Epilogue represents some thoughts and reactions to this collection of articles. It falls into four sections. (1) A discussion of the term Anthropocene in relation to degrees of anthropocentrism. (2) A comparison of the varied approaches, positive or not, to ecological discourse analysis. (3) Observations on the challenges posed by a dominant consumer capitalist ideology, with which “environmental” movements sometimes compromise, and the authors’ stances towards them. (4) A contextualisation of some recurring discourse techniques evident in the collection – proximity, visual communication, framing, narrative and metaphor – within a cognitive framework distinguishing between similarity and contiguity meaning systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 633-645 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Text and Talk |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 8 Apr 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- anthropocene
- consumer capitalism
- contiguity
- ecological discourse analysis
- metaphor
- narrative framing
- similarity
- visual communication