Affiliation:
1. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Abstract
Abstract
In this essay, I present data from a regional climate conference
to demonstrate how speakers engage in dialogic practice to constitute a moral
universe of climate actors. I employ the notion of the science-policy-practice
dialogue to introduce three identity categories – scientist expert, elected
policymaker, and practitioner – which participants use to position themselves
and relate to others and their environments. Using discourse analysis, I attend
to the membership categorization devices speakers use to deploy these identity
categories and constitute the cast of climate characters. Speakers assign
themselves and others to identity categories by making claims to enoughness,
which are then used to establish expectations and justify actions.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies