Chapter 3 Personal Notes

Question 1

symbolic construction of the environment: figurative way the world as we know it is?
-how we ?

Answer 1

assembled and disassembled through communication

-articulate, imagine, define, contest signs

Question 2

the environment affects us but our? also have the capacity to ?

Answer 2

language and other symbolic action/ affect or construct our perceptions of the environment itself

Question 3

terministic screens: metaphor of ? to describe the way all discourse ?
-what what what

Answer 3

screens/ orients us toward certain things or aspects of the world and not others
-reflection, selection, deflection

Question 4

naming: the assigning of words to invite ?

examples ?

Answer 4

orientation, valuation, about an assemblage of persons, statements, relationships
-vegetarian, sustanitarian

Question 5

environmental communication often attempts to create a sense of ?

Answer 5

urgency with particular audience in particular situation for desired effects

Question 6

tropes refer to figures of speech that turn a meaning from its original sense in a?
-examples

Answer 6

new direction

synecdoche , metaphor, irony

Question 7

synecdoche: when a figure of speech is a ?

example

Answer 7

part standing for a whole

melting glaciers=global warming

Question 8

metaphors ?

way of communicating

Answer 8

mother nature, spaceship earth, carbon footprint

-concerns or goal s

Question 9

environmental actors often rely on different ? to influence ?
examples

Answer 9

genres/ perceptions of issue or problem

-apocalyptic, jeremiad, environmental melodrama

Question 10

industrial apocalyptic rhetoric: a set of rhetorical appeals that constitute the imminent? and catastrophic ? associated with the loss

Answer 10

demise of a particular industry,e conomic, or political system/ ramifications

Question 11

jeremiad example ?

refers to speech or writing that laments the ? and warns of ?

Answer 11

lorax

behavior of people or a society/ future consequences if they don’t change their ways

Question 12

dominant discourse: when it gains ?

Answer 12

broad or taken for granted status when its meaning help legitimize certain practices

Question 13

neoliberalism: primary perspective informing ?

called for ? to revive ?

Answer 13

climate denial

-deregulation, privitization, welfare cuts, and reduced taxation / high corporate profits and economic growth

Question 14

critical discourse: recurring ways of speaking that challenge ? and offer ?

Answer 14

society’s taken for granted assumptions/ alternatives to prevailing discourses