Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | ES/F040482/1 | |
| Title | Carbon compounds: Lexical creativity and discourse formations in the context of climate change | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Not Energy Related 50%; Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts) 50%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology) 75%; AREA STUDIES (American Studies and Anglophone Area Studies) 25%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy) 50%; Other (Energy technology information dissemination) 25%; Other (Studies not related to a specific technology area) 25%; |
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| Principal Investigator |
Prof B (Brigitte ) Nerlich No email address given Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | ESRC | |
| Start Date | 01 September 2008 | |
| End Date | 31 August 2010 | |
| Duration | 12 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £148,298 | |
| Industrial Sectors | No relevance to Underpinning Sectors | |
| Region | East Midlands | |
| Programme | ||
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Prof B (Brigitte ) Nerlich , Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham (100.000%) |
| Web Site | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FF040482%2F1 |
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| Objectives | Objectives not supplied | |
| Abstract | The 20th century was the century of "the gene" and its meaning has been studied by social scientists. The 21st century will be the century of "carbon" whose meaning needs to be investigated. One way to do this is through the study of a whole new language that has started to evolve around the term "carbon" as a hub: carbon criminals, carbon champions, and carbon profligacy are just some of the lexical combinations or compounds that are continuously created and used by the media and other stakeholders. This project charts this process of lexical creativity from about the 1990s onwards. Using methods from lexical pragmatics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and cybermetrics, it will collect and analyse five datasets: two collections of US and UK newspapers texts, a corpus of Internet blog feeds, a corpus of web-based texts downloaded from a wide range of websites and transcripts of stakeholder group debates. Communicating climate change is a complex activity in which many different stakeholders engage for different purposes and in order to achieve a variety of ends. Studying the use of "carbon compounds" in context provides one tool for mapping these activities and assessing their potential impact. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 25/11/11 | |
