School of Psychology, Murdoch University, Australia.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2010 Sep;49(Pt 3):601-25. doi: 10.1348/014466609X481173. Epub 2010 Feb 16.
The release of the fourth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in February 2007 prompted a flood of responses from political leaders around the globe. Perhaps nowhere was this more apparent than in Australia, where its release coincided with the first sitting week of the Australian Parliament, in an election year. The current study involves a discursive analysis of climate change rhetoric produced by politicians from the major Australian political parties in the period following the release of the IPCC leading up to the national election. Data include both transcripts of parliamentary debate and statements directly broadcast in the media. The analysis focuses on the various ways in which the issue of climate change was invoked and rhetorically managed by each of the two parties in the lead up to the election. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which appeals to the 'national interest' and 'lifestyle maintenance', both regular features of political rhetoric, were mobilized by both parties to discursively manage their positions on the climate change issue. Implications of the ways in which such appeals were constructed are discussed in relation to the discursive limits of the ways in which the issue of climate change is constructed in public debate.
2007 年 2 月，联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）第四次报告发布，引发了全球政治领导人的大量回应。在澳大利亚，这种情况尤为明显，因为报告发布恰逢澳大利亚议会选举年的第一周会期。本研究涉及对主要澳大利亚政党的政客在发布 IPCC 之后到全国选举之前的气候变化言论进行话语分析。数据包括议会辩论的记录和直接在媒体上播出的声明。分析重点关注每个政党在选举前援引和修辞处理气候变化问题的各种方式。特别是，它侧重于两党如何利用“国家利益”和“生活方式维护”这两个政治修辞的常见特征，来对气候变化问题的立场进行话语管理。讨论了构建此类诉求的方式对气候变化问题在公共辩论中构建方式的话语限制的影响。
