Kjersti Fløttum is professor of French linguistics at the Department of foreign languages, University of Bergen. Her research fields are text and genre theory and discourse analysis, with a special focus on linguistic polyphony in scientific, political and climate change discourse as well as on narrative structures in climate change discourse. Fløttum has headed several cross-disciplinary projects (KIAP, EURLING, LINGCLIM). She is co-author of the books ScaPoLine (2004) and Academic Voices (2006), and editor of Speaking to Europe (2013). She has published in international journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, Language & Communication, Text & Talk, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, Nature Climate Change, and in Oxford Research Encyclopedias.

Foreword

Mike Hulme

1 Language and climate change

Kjersti Fløttum

2 Verbal and visual framing activity in climate change discourse: a multimodal analysis of media representations of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report

Trine Dahl

3 Competing climate change narratives: an analysis of leader statements during COP21 in Paris

Øyvind Gjerstad

4 Stories about climate change: The influence of language on Norwegian public opinion

Michael D. Jones, Kjersti Fløttum, and Øyvind Gjerstad

5 Metaphors in online editorials and op-eds about climate change, 2006 - 2013: A study of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States

Dimitrinka Atanasova and Nelya Koteyko

6 Conceptual metaphors associated with climate change in corporate annual

reports: two perspectives from the United States and Australia

Oleksandr Kapranov

7 Willingness of action

Kjersti Fløttum

8 The Paris COP21 agreement - obligations for 195 countries

Kjersti Fløttum and Helge Drange

9 Data-driven approaches to climate change discourse, illustrated through case studies of blogs and international climate negotiations

Andrew Salway