GREENING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: Applications to the study of environmental law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2-2015

Abstract

While scholars have expended great effort analyzing environmental discourse and applying a critical lens to environmental law, scant work has used critical discourse analysis (CDA) to study environmental law. This is surprising given the rising prominence of CDA and the continued development of critical environmental law scholarship. The present article seeks to correct for this oversight by highlighting the particularities of environmental law which compel the use of CDA, and outlining a method by which social science researchers can use CDA to understand the role of power in the domain of environmental law.

Publication Title

Critical Discourse Studies

Volume

12

Issue

4

First Page

482

Last Page

493

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1080/17405904.2015.1023326

ISSN

17405904

E-ISSN

17405912

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