Framing responsibilities for climate change in Chinese and American newspapers

A corpus-assisted discourse study

Bibliographic Data

ID7479129
AuthorsLiu Ming (0000-0002-3815-4705, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, HongKong, China), Jingyi Huang (0000-0002-1209-9699, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume25
Issue8
Pages1792-1811
Publication date2023-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14648849231187453
OpenAlexW4382987711
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited40

This study conducts a corpus-assisted discourse study of framing responsibilities for climate change in China Daily (CD) and The New York Times (NYT). Based on the distinction between causal and treatment responsibilities, it focuses on the framing of human and non-human causal responsibilities as well as developed and developing countries’ causal and treatment responsibilities for climate change in the two newspapers. The findings suggest that CD tends to show consensus on the human causes of climate change while NYT is inclined to problematize human causes for climate change. While both newspapers favor treatment over causal responsibilities, CD prefers to underline developed countries’ historical causal responsibilities for climate change and urges developed countries to take more treatment responsibilities for climate change, whereas NYT prefers to underscore developing countries’ current causal responsibilities for climate change and their shared treatment responsibilities for climate change

China · Climate change · Framing (construction · Geography · Newspaper · Political science · Public relations · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Ecology · Law · Social Psychology

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