The Image of Climate Crisis in Media
A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21707741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muhammad Adam (0000-0002-0248-6820, Universitas Balikpapan), Wahyuni Wahyuni (0000-0001-5970-7121, Universitas Balikpapan) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-24 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1410-5691 • E-ISSN: 2580-5878 |
| Publisher | Sanata Dharma University (PUBLISHER • ID) |
| DOI | 10.24071/joll.v20i1.2413 |
| OpenAlex | W3012725495 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The climate crisis has now become the world problem and a big environmental issue and has drawn the attention of governments and media. The impact of the crisis can be reflected on how media describe the crisis using metaphors. The way media use the language metaphorically to describe the climate crisis is the focus of this study. Using conceptual metaphor analysis, the researchers aim to identify the source domains of climate crisis metaphor which deliver the sense of urgency message related to climate crisis. The source of data is news articles from The Guardian online news website which discuss the climate crisis. The result shows that various source domains are used to describe the climate crisis in metaphor: Climate Crisis is described as a War, as an Object in Motion, Directionality, a Vehicle, a Destination, a Political Ideology, a Wrestler, a Chemical Substance, and as a Natural Disaster. Although climate crisis is, one of them, described metaphorically as a destination where sooner or later without a drastic action, eventually the world will arrive there, but it implies an unwanted destination that should be avoided or else, turning back or stop towards the destination, and with the highest finding where climate crisis is described as a war to fight and to combat, it shows that climate crisis is a real threat to our world which everyone should take action to fight. This study shows that although the unintended entailments occurred, the source domain of war and destination deliver the sense of urgency of the climate crisis
Conceptual metaphor · Guardian · Ideology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law
Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change
Metaphors for the War (or Race) against Climate Change
Language, Figurative Thought, and Cross-Cultural Comparison
The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change
The “War” Against Climate Change and Christian Eco-Justice
Understanding and communicating climate change in metaphors
The dynamic complexities of metaphor interpretation
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |