Kjersti Fløttum
Biographic Data
| ID | 247562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kjersti Fløttum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kjersti |
| FAMILY NAME | Fløttum |
| SIGNATURE | FLØTTUM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0834-824X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
People as Climate Action Motivators. A Survey‐Based Study of Wording and Arguments Suggested as Motivating for Individual Climate Action
Many studies emphasize the importance of interpersonal communication in shaping individuals' climate beliefs and actions, but none seem to focus on individuals in the general public as “climate action motivators,” i.e., persons providing reasons to engage in climate action. Our goal is to move linguistic research on climate communication forward through an innovative study focusing on identifying words and arguments that people assume will motiva…
The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism
How do journalists conceive of covering climate change from a lifestyle perspective? Do they think reporting on climate and lifestyle should provide their audiences with advice and solutions for how to make climate friendly choices? We address these questions through a survey among Norwegian journalists and editors with questions about their experience with reporting on climate and lifestyles, their evaluation of the importance of journalism on c…
People's Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change
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, we explore what semantic roles and values the respondents attribute to nature as well as to how they interact with the public debate about climate change. We observe that different conceptions and valuations of nature are tie…
Natur og menneske i et språklig klimaperspektiv
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, bestående av svar på åpne spørsmål, stiller vi to spørsmål: 1) hvilken rolle tillegges natur og menneske som årsak til klimaendringer, og 2) hvilken plass har naturen i folks liv og levemåte som et argument for livsstil…
De la polyphonie linguistique à la polyphonie discursive: Un chemin à trois étapes
Cette contribution présente et illustre un développement de la polyphonie en trois étapes. Notre ambition est de parvenir à une analyse qui montre et explique la richesse polyphonique de l’interprétation discursive. Pour ce faire, la ScaPoLine s’est ouverte au dialogisme ainsi qu’au modèle de Genève. Toutefois, pour simplifier l’outil méthodologique et donc permettre de dévoiler des interprétations spontanées de l’énoncé, le cadre méthodologique …
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
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 online by the Norwegian Citizen Panel/DIGSSCORE, located at the University of Bergen. The survey provided 1,149 answers from respondents across Norway. The analysis combines a lexical and a text linguistic approach (Fløttum & Gje…
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and social consequences, for example linked to employment, mobility, and individual consumption patterns. Consequently, public acceptance of such an energy transition is needed for its success in democracies. However, the extent to w…
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
Klimanarrativer i ulike sjangrer
Innledningen presenterer utviklingen rundt studier av språkbruk i klimadebatten og i LINGCLIM-prosjektet. Deretter følger en kort gjennomgang av narrativbegrepet i et tekstlingvistisk perspektiv. Hovedinspirasjonen er hentet fra Jean-Michel Adams arbeid med narrativsekvenser, kombinert med enkelte aspekter fra Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) utviklet av Michael Jones og kollegaer. Dette rammeverket blir demonstrert gjennom enkeltstudier av ulike…
Verbal–visual harmony or dissonance? A news values analysis of multimodal news texts on climate change
Citizens’ preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions
Tackling climate change requires both policy and individual action. Mobilizing such action can be made more optimal with knowledge about how the public views climate change solutions and what they think needs to be done in the face of climate change. Yet most public opinion research to date uses either closed questions about agreement with various pre-determined statements (such as views on science, worry, and support for given policy options) or…
Narratives in climate change discourse
‘Stories’ used to communicate climate change knowledge shape opinions and preferences, and analyzing such narratives can help explain how they are constructed and how they influence us on personal and societal scales. The narrative perspective makes it possible to identify the presence or absence of typical components in a ‘story,’ such as initial situation, complication, reaction(s), resolution, and final situation, and to identify different act…
Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: Findings from a climate concerned and oil-rich nation
Young people represent the future, but little is known about their attitudes towards climate change, one of the most serious issues facing the world today. The purpose of the present study is to contribute with improved and new knowledge of young Norwegians’ understanding of and attitudes towards this issue, with a special focus on perspectives of the future. Of particular interest is the influence of divergent framings of the climate question in…
Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC “Worlds”—A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
Norske klimanarrativer – hvor mange “fortellinger”? En lingvistisk og diskursiv analyse av to norske stortingsmeldinger
Sammendrag: Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan klimafenomenet presenteres i to norske stortingsmeldinger: Norsk klimapolitikk og Nordområdene. Visjon og virkemidler (2011-2012). Klimakommunikasjon har i det siste tiåret fått mye oppmerksomhet og et voksende antall publikasjoner har studert ulike lingvistiske og diskursive sider av så vel vitenskapelige som politiske fremstillinger av klimaendringer. Målet med denne artikkelen er å bidra til dett…
A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate
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 many fields, notably media science. To date, few linguistics-based studies on climate-related newspaper texts have been undertaken. This paper presents a theoretical framework – the Scandinavian theory of linguistic polyphony – w…
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse
The Role of Social Justice and Poverty in South Africa’s National Climate Change Response White Paper
In late 2011 the South African government published a White Paper outlining climate change response policies for the coming decades. Among the main topics of the text were the socio-economic and climatic vulnerabilities of the country, including the situation of the poor. With the aim of analysing the argumentation regarding climate change and social justice we develop a combined linguistic and discursive approach, starting with occurrences of ke…
Different contexts, different "stories"? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change
L’éthos auto-attribué d’auteurs-doctorants dans le discours scientifique
Le propos principal du présent article est d'examiner la construction de l'éthos auto-attribué dans des articles scientifiques écrits par des doctorants français et de comparer cette construction à celle observée chez des chercheurs confirmés. La construction de l'éthos est examinée à travers différents types de manifestations auctoriales, à savoir les rôles de scripteur, de chercheur et d'argumentateur. Les observations montrent que les doctoran…
EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness
Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective: NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe
In this article we examine some linguistic characteristics of two speeches made by Tony Blair, in the British (2004) and the European (2005) parliaments. These speeches can be characterised as visionary speeches on Europe and European integration. By introducing a polyphonic perspective, we will point to specific linguistic features, such as polemic negation by ‘not’ and contrastive-concessive constructions by ‘but’, revealing different types of …
Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines
This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing on the two factors of discipline and language at the same time. It is based on a large electronic corpus of 450 research articles from three disciplines…
The self and the others: Polyphonic visibility in research articles
This article will focus on the self (I/we) perspective in combination with the other (you/they) perspective as manifested through polyphonic expressions within the genre of the research article. The materials are taken from the KIAP project based at the University of Bergen. Four points will be discussed: 1) The notion of linguistic polyphony can handle the combination of the two perspectives of self and other in a fruitful way; 2) There are some…
Narratives in climate change discourse
‘Stories’ used to communicate climate change knowledge shape opinions and preferences, and analyzing such narratives can help explain how they are constructed and how they influence us on personal and societal scales. The narrative perspective makes it possible to identify the presence or absence of typical components in a ‘story,’ such as initial situation, complication, reaction(s), resolution, and final situation, and to identify different act…
Citizens’ preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions
Tackling climate change requires both policy and individual action. Mobilizing such action can be made more optimal with knowledge about how the public views climate change solutions and what they think needs to be done in the face of climate change. Yet most public opinion research to date uses either closed questions about agreement with various pre-determined statements (such as views on science, worry, and support for given policy options) or…
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness
Traces of self and others in research articles. A comparative pilot study of English, French and Norwegian research articles in medicine, economics and linguistics
This article presents a pilot study which has been undertaken as preparation for a comparative research project called “Cultural identity in academic prose”. The general aim of the project is to study which aspects of scientific activity are most important for what we may call cultural identity in academic writing. Whether such identities are primarily national or discipline‐specific is discussed. The project involves research articles from three…
Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC “Worlds”—A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
The self and the others: Polyphonic visibility in research articles
This article will focus on the self (I/we) perspective in combination with the other (you/they) perspective as manifested through polyphonic expressions within the genre of the research article. The materials are taken from the KIAP project based at the University of Bergen. Four points will be discussed: 1) The notion of linguistic polyphony can handle the combination of the two perspectives of self and other in a fruitful way; 2) There are some…
Verbal–visual harmony or dissonance? A news values analysis of multimodal news texts on climate change
Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: Findings from a climate concerned and oil-rich nation
Young people represent the future, but little is known about their attitudes towards climate change, one of the most serious issues facing the world today. The purpose of the present study is to contribute with improved and new knowledge of young Norwegians’ understanding of and attitudes towards this issue, with a special focus on perspectives of the future. Of particular interest is the influence of divergent framings of the climate question in…
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
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 online by the Norwegian Citizen Panel/DIGSSCORE, located at the University of Bergen. The survey provided 1,149 answers from respondents across Norway. The analysis combines a lexical and a text linguistic approach (Fløttum & Gje…
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and social consequences, for example linked to employment, mobility, and individual consumption patterns. Consequently, public acceptance of such an energy transition is needed for its success in democracies. However, the extent to w…
L’éthos auto-attribué d’auteurs-doctorants dans le discours scientifique
Le propos principal du présent article est d'examiner la construction de l'éthos auto-attribué dans des articles scientifiques écrits par des doctorants français et de comparer cette construction à celle observée chez des chercheurs confirmés. La construction de l'éthos est examinée à travers différents types de manifestations auctoriales, à savoir les rôles de scripteur, de chercheur et d'argumentateur. Les observations montrent que les doctoran…
Different contexts, different "stories"? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change
Written reformulation in a modular approach
Reformulation is an important discursive strategy in the language user's everyday efforts to solve communicative problems. The object of investigation in this paper is the reformulation sequence signalled by c'est‐à‐dire in written French. The aim of the study presented is, in general, to throw light on the relation between form and use of this type of reformulation and, in particular, to describe its various functions. The methodological approac…
Traces of self and others in research articles. A comparative pilot study of English, French and Norwegian research articles in medicine, economics and linguistics
This article presents a pilot study which has been undertaken as preparation for a comparative research project called “Cultural identity in academic prose”. The general aim of the project is to study which aspects of scientific activity are most important for what we may call cultural identity in academic writing. Whether such identities are primarily national or discipline‐specific is discussed. The project involves research articles from three…
The self and the others: Polyphonic visibility in research articles
This article will focus on the self (I/we) perspective in combination with the other (you/they) perspective as manifested through polyphonic expressions within the genre of the research article. The materials are taken from the KIAP project based at the University of Bergen. Four points will be discussed: 1) The notion of linguistic polyphony can handle the combination of the two perspectives of self and other in a fruitful way; 2) There are some…
Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines
This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing on the two factors of discipline and language at the same time. It is based on a large electronic corpus of 450 research articles from three disciplines…
Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective: NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe
In this article we examine some linguistic characteristics of two speeches made by Tony Blair, in the British (2004) and the European (2005) parliaments. These speeches can be characterised as visionary speeches on Europe and European integration. By introducing a polyphonic perspective, we will point to specific linguistic features, such as polemic negation by ‘not’ and contrastive-concessive constructions by ‘but’, revealing different types of …
L’éthos auto-attribué d’auteurs-doctorants dans le discours scientifique
Le propos principal du présent article est d'examiner la construction de l'éthos auto-attribué dans des articles scientifiques écrits par des doctorants français et de comparer cette construction à celle observée chez des chercheurs confirmés. La construction de l'éthos est examinée à travers différents types de manifestations auctoriales, à savoir les rôles de scripteur, de chercheur et d'argumentateur. Les observations montrent que les doctoran…
EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness
Different contexts, different "stories"? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change
Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse
The Role of Social Justice and Poverty in South Africa’s National Climate Change Response White Paper
In late 2011 the South African government published a White Paper outlining climate change response policies for the coming decades. Among the main topics of the text were the socio-economic and climatic vulnerabilities of the country, including the situation of the poor. With the aim of analysing the argumentation regarding climate change and social justice we develop a combined linguistic and discursive approach, starting with occurrences of ke…
Norske klimanarrativer – hvor mange “fortellinger”? En lingvistisk og diskursiv analyse av to norske stortingsmeldinger
Sammendrag: Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan klimafenomenet presenteres i to norske stortingsmeldinger: Norsk klimapolitikk og Nordområdene. Visjon og virkemidler (2011-2012). Klimakommunikasjon har i det siste tiåret fått mye oppmerksomhet og et voksende antall publikasjoner har studert ulike lingvistiske og diskursive sider av så vel vitenskapelige som politiske fremstillinger av klimaendringer. Målet med denne artikkelen er å bidra til dett…
A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate
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 many fields, notably media science. To date, few linguistics-based studies on climate-related newspaper texts have been undertaken. This paper presents a theoretical framework – the Scandinavian theory of linguistic polyphony – w…
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
Narratives in climate change discourse
‘Stories’ used to communicate climate change knowledge shape opinions and preferences, and analyzing such narratives can help explain how they are constructed and how they influence us on personal and societal scales. The narrative perspective makes it possible to identify the presence or absence of typical components in a ‘story,’ such as initial situation, complication, reaction(s), resolution, and final situation, and to identify different act…
Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: Findings from a climate concerned and oil-rich nation
Young people represent the future, but little is known about their attitudes towards climate change, one of the most serious issues facing the world today. The purpose of the present study is to contribute with improved and new knowledge of young Norwegians’ understanding of and attitudes towards this issue, with a special focus on perspectives of the future. Of particular interest is the influence of divergent framings of the climate question in…
Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC “Worlds”—A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
Klimanarrativer i ulike sjangrer
Innledningen presenterer utviklingen rundt studier av språkbruk i klimadebatten og i LINGCLIM-prosjektet. Deretter følger en kort gjennomgang av narrativbegrepet i et tekstlingvistisk perspektiv. Hovedinspirasjonen er hentet fra Jean-Michel Adams arbeid med narrativsekvenser, kombinert med enkelte aspekter fra Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) utviklet av Michael Jones og kollegaer. Dette rammeverket blir demonstrert gjennom enkeltstudier av ulike…
Verbal–visual harmony or dissonance? A news values analysis of multimodal news texts on climate change
Citizens’ preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions
Tackling climate change requires both policy and individual action. Mobilizing such action can be made more optimal with knowledge about how the public views climate change solutions and what they think needs to be done in the face of climate change. Yet most public opinion research to date uses either closed questions about agreement with various pre-determined statements (such as views on science, worry, and support for given policy options) or…
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and social consequences, for example linked to employment, mobility, and individual consumption patterns. Consequently, public acceptance of such an energy transition is needed for its success in democracies. However, the extent to w…
Natur og menneske i et språklig klimaperspektiv
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, bestående av svar på åpne spørsmål, stiller vi to spørsmål: 1) hvilken rolle tillegges natur og menneske som årsak til klimaendringer, og 2) hvilken plass har naturen i folks liv og levemåte som et argument for livsstil…
De la polyphonie linguistique à la polyphonie discursive: Un chemin à trois étapes
Cette contribution présente et illustre un développement de la polyphonie en trois étapes. Notre ambition est de parvenir à une analyse qui montre et explique la richesse polyphonique de l’interprétation discursive. Pour ce faire, la ScaPoLine s’est ouverte au dialogisme ainsi qu’au modèle de Genève. Toutefois, pour simplifier l’outil méthodologique et donc permettre de dévoiler des interprétations spontanées de l’énoncé, le cadre méthodologique …
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
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 online by the Norwegian Citizen Panel/DIGSSCORE, located at the University of Bergen. The survey provided 1,149 answers from respondents across Norway. The analysis combines a lexical and a text linguistic approach (Fløttum & Gje…
People's Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change
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, we explore what semantic roles and values the respondents attribute to nature as well as to how they interact with the public debate about climate change. We observe that different conceptions and valuations of nature are tie…
Sociology (17 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Climate change (8 works)