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Rebirth, Devastation and Sickness: Analyzing the Role of Metaphor in Media Discourses of Nuclear Power
2016
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Nuclear power plays an important but controversial role in policies to ensure domestic energy security, fuel poverty reduction and the mitigation of climate change. Our article construes the problem of nuclear power in terms of social discourse, language and public choice; specifically examining the role that metaphors play in the policy domain. We empirically analyse metaphors as framing devices in nuclear energy policy debates in the United Kingdom between April 2009 and March 2013, thereby
doi:10.1080/17524032.2016.1157506
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