| This case study investigates the role of ideology in the discursive constructions of climate change produced by four environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) concerned with anthropogenic climate change and its effects. Using a neo-Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis, the case study describes the distinctive discursive construction of climate change produced by each organization and identifies the ideology reflected in its discourse. The study finds that all four ENGOs are consistent in the view that climate change results from a rise in greenhouse gases caused by humans, but that each organization constructs the phenomenon of climate change in a unique way to achieve its specific ideological objectives. These constructions of climate change, achieved through various rhetorical strategies, are intended to shape our understanding of the issue. |
