Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Fløttum, Kjersti"
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Associations évoquées par le changement climatique chezdes citoyens français et norvégiens
Fløttum, Kjersti; Gjerstad, Øyvind; Tvinnereim, Endre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-07)Communication related to climate change as well as to its consequences constitutes a major challenge; all the more so since climate is a nonobservable phenomenon, in stark contrast to the weather. In this perspective, ... -
Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector
Dahl, Trine; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how energy companies discursively construct climate change when integrating it into their overall business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – This linguistic study ... -
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
Gjerstad, Øyvind; Fløttum, Kjersti (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open-ended survey question, where we ask what a climate-friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted ... -
Different contexts, different “stories”? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change
Fløttum, Kjersti; Dahl, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-01) -
Et tverrdisiplinært syn på Knut Hamsuns novelle "En ærkeskælm"
Holm, Helge Vidar; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2000) -
Explaining topic prevalence in answers to open-ended survey questions about climate change
Tvinnereim, Endre; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Citizens’ opinions are crucial for action on climate change, but are, owing to the complexity of the issue, diverse and potentially unformed1. We contribute to the understanding of public views on climate change and to ... -
Il y a polyphonie et polyphonie
Fløttum, Kjersti; Didriksen, Anders Alvsåker; Gjerstad, Øyvind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014) -
IPCC communicative practices: A linguistic comparison of the Summary for Policymakers 2007 and 2013
Fløttum, Kjersti; Dahl, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The present paper undertakes an analysis of language use in two so-called Summaries for policymakers (SPMs), published as part of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Assessment Reports 4 (AR4, 2007) and 5 ... -
KIAP - reflexions on a complex corpus
Fløttum, Kjersti; Dahl, Trine; Didriksen, Anders Alvsåker; Gjesdal, Anje Müller (Chapter; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04-10)In this article we describe the KIAP corpus, a corpus of 450 research articles covering three disciplines (economics, linguistics and medicine) and three languages (English, French and Norwegian) located at the University ... -
A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate
Dahl, Trine; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-07)The public debate on the highly contested issue of climate change is characterized by a multitude of voices as well as position taking by the social actors involved. Studies involving the climate issue have emanated from ... -
Linguistic mediation of climate change discourse
Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)For several decades, the natural sciences have documented causes and effects of climate change, with all its complexity and inherent uncertainty. This global challenge is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity ... -
Natur og menneske i et språklig klimaperspektiv
Fløttum, Kjersti; Gjerstad, Øyvind; Gjesdal, Anje Müller (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Med utgangspunkt i et klimaperspektiv undersøker vi i denne artikkelen hvordan nordmenn uttrykker sine meninger om og sitt forhold til den fysiske naturen. Med et materiale i hovedsak hentet fra representative spørreundersøkelser, ... -
Negation and Climate Change in French Blog Posts
Gjerstad, Øyvind; Fløttum, Kjersti (Chapter, 2023) -
Norske klimanarrativer – hvor mange “fortellinger”? En lingvistisk og diskursiv analyse av to norske stortingsmeldinger
Fløttum, Kjersti; Espeland, Tonje J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This article explores how climate change is framed in the Norwegian White Papers on Climate Policy and on the High North (2011–2012). Scientific as well as political representations of climate change influence individual ... -
People’s Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change
Andersen, Gisle; Fløttum, Kjersti; Carbou, Guillaume; Gjesdal, Anje Müller (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper investigates how people conceive and evaluate nature through language, in a climate change context. With material consisting of 1,200 answers to open-ended questions in nationally representative surveys in Norway, ... -
Perspectives linguistiques et discursives sur la circulation du discours portant sur le changement climatique
Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)In the debates on climate change – one of the great global challenges, we observe a development where various discourses are constructed, often based on divergent understandings of the phenomenon as well as of its consequences. ... -
Remembering and Communicating Climate Change Narratives – The Influence of World Views on Selective Recollection
Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger; Salway, Andrew; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-07)We examine how people remember stories about climate change and how they communicate these stories to others. Drawing on theories of reconstructive memory and cultural theory, we assume that recollection is systematically ... -
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
Fløttum, Kjersti; Gjerstad, Øyvind; Gjesdal, Anje Müller; Koteyko, Nelya; Salway, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11)This paper investigates how the notion of future is represented in a large corpus of English-language blogs related to climate change, with an overarching interest in exploring to what extent the perspectives of gloom-and-doom ... -
Rôles des citoyens dans la lutte climatique : une étude linguistique des opinions des Français sur les possibilités et les obstacles concernant l’atténuation du changement climatique
Fløttum, Kjersti (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé : Les défis que pose le changement climatique se présentent de plus en plus clairement, et les citoyens dans différentes parties du monde en sont touchés de différentes manières. La majorité des efforts pour atténuer ... -
Rôles d’auteur et références à d’autres sources. Comparaison entre écrit et oral
Rinck, Fanny; Fløttum, Kjersti; Poudat, Céline (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Cette contribution se centre sur la dimension énonciative du discours scientifique. Nous prenons appui sur des typologies éprouvées par nos recherches antérieures sur le genre de l'article de recherche dans des langues ...