John Currie

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Kontakt

john.currie@hiof.no

Studiested

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Forskningsintressen

Klimatförändringsdiskurs
Corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Ecolinguistics
Metaforer
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

Doktorandprojekt

Mitt doktorandprojekt undersöker hur klimatförändringar kommuniceras och förstås i brittiska politikers och klimatförändringsaktivisters språk, under tioårsperioden mellan 2014 och 2023. Detta inkluderar hur själva fenomenet är diskursivt konstruerat, såväl som orsaker och effekter av klimatförändringar, klimatåtgärder och relationer människa-natur. Jag använder mig av corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS).

Mina handledare är Daniel Lees Fryer och Ben Clarke.

Bakgrund

Jag är en doktorand vid Högskolan i Østfold och Göteborgs universitet. Jag ingår forskningsprogrammet ELLA på HiØ (Education, Literature, Language). Jag har en mastersexamen i kommunikation från Göteborgs universitet och en kandidatexamen i engelsk litteratur från University of Edinburgh. Jag har också mer flera års erfarenhet av undervisa i engelska som främmande språk.

Projekt

ELLA

Publikationer

Currie, J. S. G., & Clarke, B. P. (2022). FIGHTING TALK: The use of the conceptual metaphor CLIMATE CHANGE IS CONFLICT in the UK Houses of Parliament, 2015-2019. Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of language and politics, 2022. doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21052.cur

Currie, J. S. G. (2025). Cutting emissions, halting biodiversity loss: climate change solutions in the language of UK politicians and UK climate activists, 2018–2020. Text & Talk. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2024-0231

Forskergrupper

Currie, John; Clarke, Ben P. & Fryer, Daniel Lees (2026). Communicating climate change in UK parliamentary politics: Discursive fluctuation over time. Applied Corpus Linguistics. 6(2). doi: 10.1016/j.acorp.2026.100216. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Currie, John & Clarke, Ben (2022). Fighting talk: The use of the conceptual metaphor climate change is conflict in the UK Houses of Parliament, 2015–2019. Journal of Language and Politics. ISSN 1569-2159. 21(4), s. 589–612. doi: 10.1075/jlp.21052.cur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Currie, John; Fryer, Daniel Lees & Clarke, Ben (2025). 'We are nature defending itself!' Communicating climate change in times of rebellion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This presentation explores how climate change is communicated by a sample of the UK environmental movement, a group which has received surprisingly little attention both in terms of SFL and corpus assisted discourse studies (CADS) research. A corpus of around 700,000 words has been compiled from UK versions of the websites for Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace in 2019: the year which saw mass mobilisation of climate activist groups across the world, including in the UK. Taking a CADS approach (Baker, 2023) and drawing on ecolinguistics (Stibbe, 2021; Poole, 2022), we examine the extent to which these activist groups communicate climate change in novel ways, contrasting with hegemonic views found in political (Currie & Clarke, 2022) and media discourses (Gillings & Dayrell, 2024), for example. Transitivity patterns (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) point to alternative uses of conflict metaphors in the data, where natural referents are given both value beyond the instrumental as something to be ‘defended’ and agency as ‘allies’ in the ‘fight’ against climate change. These patterns may represent a beneficial discourse, countering the human-nature dichotomy which is found in much communication (Goatly, 2017; Stibbe, 2021).
Currie, John; Clarke, Ben & Fryer, Daniel Lees (2022). Towards understanding trends in climate change discourse in UK institutions 2015-2021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Currie, John; Clarke, Ben & Fryer, Daniel Lees (2022). Tackling climate change: investigating transitivity patterns in UK institutions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Publisert 4. jan. 2022 12:06 - Sist endret 1. okt. 2025 11:01