Analyses of discourse surrounding climate change is a vital, but understudied, area of environmental and social psychology. Discursive and narrative approaches, with roots in other social sciences but increasingly attracting the attention of psychologists, explore how social actions are justified, legitimised and normalised through talk and text. Such approaches explore language produced by actors at a variety of levels, from the individual (micro) level, to the societal and political (macro) level. In this review, we aim to draw psychologists’ attention to recent discursive and narrative work on the topic of climate change. We summarise the importance of discursive methodologies for understanding and problematising the social dynamics of climate change at macro and micro levels and highlight their implications for intervention.

围绕气候变化的话语分析是环境和社会心理学的一个重要但未被充分研究的领域。话语和叙事方法植根于其他社会科学，但越来越受到心理学家的关注，探索社会行为如何通过谈话和文本被证明、合法化和规范化。这种方法探索了从个人（微观）层面到社会和政治（宏观）层面的不同层面的行为者所产生的语言。在这篇综述中，我们的目的是让心理学家关注最近关于气候变化主题的话语和叙述工作。我们总结了话语方法论在宏观和微观层面理解气候变化的社会动态并将其问题化的重要性，并强调了它们对干预的影响。