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Metaphor use in the political communication of major resource projects in Australia
Pacific Journalism Review ( IF 1.0 ) Pub Date : 2017-07-21 , DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v23i1.103
Guy Hamilton Healy , Paul Williams

This article explores the patterns of political communication surrounding the environmental regulation of major Australian resource projects during the Business Advisory Forum of April 2012. The Forum discussed business and government responses to major project approvals to improve national productivity at a time when these projects also posed significant implications for anthropogenic global warming. The article’s method is to examine print news articles published during this period. While the international literature has long demonstrated how the American fossil fuel lobby has employed metaphor to characterise climate change as a ‘non-problem’—therefore allegedly making regulation of greenhouse gas emissions economically and politically unnecessary—no Australian study of metaphor use in climate science news has been conducted. This article, in finding news stories on so-called ‘green tape’ environmental regulation were saturated with metaphor clusters, argues that journalistic metaphor use has made the complex issue of environmental regulation accessible to mass audiences. But, in so doing, we also argue this metaphor use has supported business and government’s position on environmental deregulation of major projects. Finally, this article also argues that some journalists’ use of metaphors encouraged policy-makers to adopt, and re-use, journalists’ own language and, in so doing, allow those journalists to be seen as complicit in the shaping of softer public attitudes to the impact of major projects on anthropogenic climate change.

中文翻译:

隐喻在澳大利亚重大资源项目政治沟通中的运用

本文探讨了在 2012 年 4 月的商业咨询论坛期间围绕澳大利亚主要资源项目的环境监管的政治沟通模式。该论坛讨论了企业和政府对重大项目批准的反应,以提高国家生产力,同时这些项目也构成了重要的影响对人为全球变暖的影响。文章的方法是检查在此期间发表的印刷新闻文章。虽然国际文献早已证明美国化石燃料游说团体如何使用比喻将气候变化描述为“非问题”——因此据称在经济和政治上不需要对温室气体排放进行监管——但没有澳大利亚研究在气候科学中使用比喻新闻已经进行。本文,在寻找关于所谓的“绿带”环境监管的新闻报道时,隐喻集群已经饱和,他认为新闻隐喻的使用使大众受众能够理解复杂的环境监管问题。但是,在这样做时,我们也认为这种比喻的使用支持了企业和政府在重大项目环境放松管制方面的立场。最后,本文还认为,一些记者对隐喻的使用鼓励政策制定者采用和重复使用记者自己的语言,并在这样做时让这些记者被视为塑造更温和的公众态度的同谋。重大项目对人为气候变化的影响。认为新闻隐喻的使用使大众观众可以理解复杂的环境监管问题。但是,在这样做时,我们也认为这种比喻的使用支持了企业和政府在重大项目环境放松管制方面的立场。最后,本文还认为,一些记者对隐喻的使用鼓励政策制定者采用和重复使用记者自己的语言,并在这样做时让这些记者被视为塑造更温和的公众态度的同谋。重大项目对人为气候变化的影响。认为新闻隐喻的使用使大众观众可以理解复杂的环境监管问题。但是,在这样做时,我们也认为这种比喻的使用支持了企业和政府在重大项目环境放松管制方面的立场。最后,本文还认为,一些记者对隐喻的使用鼓励政策制定者采用和重复使用记者自己的语言,并在这样做时让这些记者被视为塑造更温和的公众态度的同谋。重大项目对人为气候变化的影响。
更新日期:2017-07-21
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