Dissent and environmental communication

A semiotic approach

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ID4474574
AutoresDavid Low (0000-0001-6198-5008), David W Low (0000-0002-2549-3433, Monash University Malaysia, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume2008
Fascículo172
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/semi.2008.089
OpenAlexW2083282048
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas20

This article examines environmental communication from within an enquiry perspective. It is argued that dissent is a vital part of any enquiry into environmental issues. Aspects of Charles S. Peirce's semiotic logic are introduced and discussed with reference to environmental communication and dissent. Environmental problems are shown to be at root disconnections between the sign use of humans and the sign use of an environment. Such disconnections arise when dissenting voices from an environment are ignored, misinterpreted, or suppressed. It is concluded that a semiotic approach to environmental communication offers a valuable insight into how dissent functions to resolve environmental disconnections

Dissent · Dissenting opinion · Environmental communication · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Social science · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies