CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Truong, Courtney Nguyen |
|---|---|
| Title | Making Climate Change Relatable: The U.S. Metaphors on the Paris Climate Agreement |
| Summary | With the rising threats of climate change and the Trump Administration withdrawing the U.S. from the international Paris Climate Agreement, this thesis examines the metaphors both President Obama and President Trump use when framing climate change to their audience. Drawing from the constructivist lens, this thesis utilizes its framework to conduct a discourse analysis on Obama’s and Trump’s speech acts to analyze how they make meaning of climate change through the conceptual metaphors that they use when presenting their stance on the Paris Agreement such as by claiming that climate change is a war. This thesis also applies the theoretical frameworks of environmental politics to engage with the meaning and implications of the metaphors which both U.S. leaders use. As metaphors are heavily embedded into our language and shape the way society thinks towards certain concepts, this thesis argues that it is not only political discourse which needs to be less state-centric in its language but also the field of International Relations as climate change impacts everyone on the planet. |
| Supervisor | Strausz, Erzsebet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/truong_courtney.pdf |
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