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Papers by Oleksandr Kapranov

LANGUAGE: Codification‧Competence‧Communication, 2024

The Bank of England (further – the Bank) is one of the leading actors in the financial sector bot... more The Bank of England (further – the Bank) is one of the leading actors in the
financial sector both in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The Bank is known for
publishing its corporate disclosures on climate change. Whilst they are freely
accessible on the Bank’s official website, there is insufficient research that
investigates them from a qualitative perspective. Seeking to bridge the current gap,
the article presents a qualitative study that aims to establish how the Bank frames
the issue of climate change in its corporate disclosures. The study involves a corpus
of the Bank’s disclosures on climate change published from 2020 to 2024.
The corpus is analysed by means of a qualitative framing methodology. The results
of the corpus analysis show that the Bank frames the issue of climate change as the
following frames (i) an international approach, (ii) the Bank’s leading role, (iii)
carbon footprint reduction, (iv) carbon-neutral economy, (v) renewables, (vi) risk,
and (vii) threat. The findings are discussed in conjunction with the prior studies
on corporate discourse concerning climate change.

Culture. Society. Economy. Politics, 2024

Anglophone mass media frequently cover climate change protest actions associated with damage to f... more Anglophone mass media frequently cover climate change protest actions associated with damage to famous artifacts and heritage sites. The present article introduces a qualitative study whose purpose is to shed light on how the leading Anglophone mass media frame an incident of spraying paint on Stonehenge, a UNESCO-protected World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom (the UK), by two members of the environmental group Just Stop Oil. The study involved a corpus of news coverages of the incident by the leading Anglophone mass media. The corpus
was analyzed using a qualitative framing methodology. The results of the framing analysis revealed that the incident of spraying paint on Stonehenge was communicated via several qualitatively different types of frames (e.g., A Disgraceful Act of Vandalism). The article further
discusses the findings through the prism of an ecolinguistic approach to the media framing of contemporaneous climate change protest actions. The study's conclusions indicate that climate change protest actions nowadays are increasingly related to culturally significant artifacts and,
particularly, UNESCO-protected World Heritage Sites

Journal for Foreign Languages, 2024

The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet i... more The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet in general and individual countries in particular (Gardiner, 2024; Yasmin, 2024). As far as the issue of climate change in individual countries is concerned, in the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, climate change resurfaces quite routinely as a topic of political debates by the major political actors (Kapranov, 2024a; Ruiu et al., 2024), who usually regard it through the lens of scientific evidence (Sébastien et al., 2014; Strassheim & Kettunen, 2014). The current British monarch, King Charles III, is also reported to use science-based evidence in his public speeches and written communication on the issue of climate change (Lovelock & Lovelock, 2013). Presently, however, little is known about how evidence, and more specifically, evidentiality are represented in King Charles III’s speeches on this issue. In light of the lack of studies on evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change, the article presents a mixed-methods study, which aims to (i) identify, (ii) classify and (iii) analyse the categories of evidentiality in a corpus of speeches on climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study is informed by the view of evidentiality as a category in its own right (Aikhenvald, 2004), which expresses “the kinds of evidence a person has for making factual claims” (Anderson, 1986: 273). Guided by Aikhenvald’s (2004) classification of evidentiality, the analysis of the corpus revealed that evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change was manifested by several categories, namely (i) assumption, (ii) hearsay, (iii) inference, (iv) non-visual sensory, (v) quotative, and (vi) visual. Furthermore, the analysis established that the quotative category of evidentiality was dominant in the corpus. The finding was taken to indicate that King Charles III’s speeches on the issue of climate change involved, to a substantial degree, evidence-based judgements on the matter.

Beyond Philology, 2024

In the Anglophone discursive space, there is a variety of actors, such as the public at large, me... more In the Anglophone discursive space, there is a variety of actors, such as the public at large, media, politicians, and independent environmental organizations (e.g. Greenpeace) that are engaged in climate change communication. In particular, Greenpeace and its national branches, for example Greenpeace Australia Pacific (further – GAP), seem to utilize social networking sites (SNSs), for instance Facebook, in communicating their opinions, calls for action, and news on the issue of climate change. Currently, however, little is known about how GAP frames its climate change communication on Facebook, which is considered one of the leading SNSs worldwide. To fill the existing research gap, the article describes and discusses a qualitative study that aims at learning about how GAP’s climate change communication is framed on Facebook. This is done by means of applying a qualitative framing methodology developed by Entman (1993, 2007, 2010) to the corpus of GAP’s status updates on Facebook. The results of the qualitative framing analysis have revealed that GAP utilizes the following frames in its climate change communication on Facebook: Climate Justice, Climate Strike, Deep-Sea Mining, Extreme Weather Events, Fossil Fuel, Fossil Fuel Corporations, Green Technology, Rising Sea Levels, and Urgency. These findings are further discussed and illustrated in the article.

Anglica Wratislaviensia , 2024

Abstract: Greta Thunberg is an iconic figure, whose engagement in the issues of the environment a... more Abstract: Greta Thunberg is an iconic figure, whose engagement in the issues of the environment
and climate change has made her a household name (Molder et al. 668). Another factor that con-
tributes to her recognizability by millions of people globally involves her active online presence on
social networking sites (SNSs), which she utilizes to communicate her views on climate change-
and environment-related issues (Bergmann and Ossewaarde 267). The article presents a quantita-
tive study on Greta Thunberg’s status updates on Facebook, which are problematized as instances
of life-writing in digital personhood, which involves an online diary afforded by SNSs in general
and Facebook in particular (Ortiz-Vilarelle 9). The study aimed at collecting a corpus of Thunberg’s
Facebook status updates and analysing them quantitatively in order to establish frequently recur -
ring lexical patterns, which shed light onto her preferred ways of construing climate change- and
environment-related discourse. The corpus analysis, which was executed in the software program
AntConc, revealed that Thunberg’s life-writing on Facebook was characterized by such frequently
occurring lexical items, as self-mentions (e.g., we) and the words climate and strike. The findings
were further discussed in detail in the article.

Journal of Education, Society & Multiculturalism, 2024

The education sector has increasingly been involved in informing learners about the issue of clim... more The education sector has increasingly been involved in informing learners about the issue of climate change (Reid, 2019), given that this issue represents an existential threat to young people and, generally, to the human race (Sears, 2020). The education sector has responded to the urgency of climate change by proposing the notion of "climate change education". It can be defined as the process of learning in the face of climate change-related risks and uncertainty (Stevenson et al., 2017). Climate change education is argued to aim at raising primary and secondary school students' awareness of climate change and its consequences (Tang, 2024). Climate change education is embraced by the education sector in a number of Nordic countries, in particular, Norway (Seikkula-Leino et al., 2021). In Norway, for instance, climate change education seems to fall within the scope of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (henceforth-The Directorate), which is responsible for the governance of the education sector from kindergarten to secondary school (Kapranov, 2021). To-date, however, there is no published research on how climate change education is represented in The Directorate's curriculum documents that pertain to pre-primary, primary, and secondary school curricula. Seeking to bridge the current research gap, the article presents a study that looks into this underresearched aspect by means of analysing a corpus of The Directorate's curriculum documents available on its official homepage https://www.udir.no/. The corpus of The Directorate's curriculum documents is investigated in the study by applying an approach to content analysis developed by Krippendorff (2004). The results of the content analysis indicate that climate change education appears to be represented in the corpus in a rather disproportionate manner. Specifically, climate change education is addressed, predominantly, in the curriculum documents in sciences in upper secondary school, whereas it is substantially underrepresented in curriculum documents on pre-primary and primary school levels. These and other findings are further discussed in the article. The

Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania, 2024

The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia of interconnected variables, which inv... more The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia of
interconnected variables, which involve political, societal, as well as ethical
and moral considerations associated with empathy, responsibility,
sustainability, and solidarity (Sadler-Smith & Akstinaite 2022). Due to these
reasons, research in climate change discourse has gained currency in the
present-day linguistic and mass media studies. One of the means of exploring how corporate and political actors view the issue of global climate change involves framing, which is copiously applied in linguistic, mass media, and discourse-related research directions (Gillings & Dayrell 2024; Schlichting 2013). To-date, however, little is known about how climate change discourse is framed by the current British monarch King Charles III. This contribution presents a qualitative study that explores the way climate change discourse is framed by King Charles III. The study involves a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III from 2005 to 2023. The corpus was analysed qualitatively in line with the framing methodology developed by Entman (1993, 2004, 2007). The analysis revealed that climate change was framed as A 2 Degree World, Deforestation, Responsibility, Risk, Sustainability, Threat, and Urgency. The findings and their discussion are further described in the article.

Linguistica Pragensia, 2024

The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency a... more The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency and distribution of reporting verbs (for instance, indicate, posit, etc.) associated with evidentiality that are found in research article abstracts (RAAs) in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics, respectively. Theoretically and methodologically, the study is informed by the literature (Söderqvist, 2020; Szczygłowska, 2022), which demonstrates that reporting verbs may mark evidentiality in scientific discourse. In order to establish the frequency of the occurrence of reporting verbs associated with evidentiality, a corpus of RAAs in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics was collected and, subsequently, analysed in software program AntConc version 4.0.11 (Anthony, 2022). The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that show and suggest were the most frequent reporting verbs associated with evidentiality in the corpus of RAAs in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics alike.

Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2024

Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, an... more Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, and discourse studies (Grist 2008; Isopp 2024; Nerlich et al. 2010). Anchored in a quantitative linguistic paradigm, the article presents a mixedmethods study on the use of self-mentions (for instance, I, we, etc.) in a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study aims at establishing the frequencies of the occurrence of self-mentions and learning about their pragmatic roles in the corpus. To that end, the corpus of King Charles III's speeches on climate change was collected and analysed. The results of the corpus analysis indicated that I was the most frequent self-mention, which King Charles III utilised in order to impart a personalised dimension to his discourse on climate change. The findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.

Sustainable Multilingualism, Nov 30, 2023

Studia Anglica Resoviensia, Dec 28, 2023

One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) sho... more One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) should master involves their ability to write an argumentative essay, which is adequately supported by credible sources, such as scientific articles, books, and online materials. Arguably, a successful argumentative essay reflects EFL students' genre-appropriate citation practices that, according to Swales (1990), involve several discursive realisations of citation (for instance, integral, non-integral, etc.) in the text. The article presents a study whose aim is to learn about citation and referencing practices in a corpus of argumentative essays written by a group of undergraduate EFL students on the upper-intermediate level of proficiency (henceforth-participants). Anchored in the theoretical framework developed by Swales (1986, 1990), the participants' citation and referencing practices in the corpus were identified and quantified. The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the participants preferred the non-integral type of citation, in which the author/authors cited are mentioned at the end of the citation in the parentheses. The participants' referencing practices were found to be dominated by books and book chapters published by a number of reputable domestic publishing houses.

Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2024

The issue of climate change poses a serious challenge to the world we live in. People's concerns ... more The issue of climate change poses a serious challenge to the world we live in. People's concerns with the issue of climate change and environmental agenda are echoed by a number of nongovernmental organisations, for instance, Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GAP), which communicates its views on the matter to the public and selected target groups on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), such as Facebook. Currently, however, there is insufficient scholarship on GAP's communication on SNSs. In particular, little is known about the role of modality in GAP's climate change and environmental discourse on Facebook. The article presents a mixed-methods study that investigates how modality, which is often associated with modal verbs, is used by GAP in its communication on Facebook. The study involves a corpus of GAP's status updates on Facebook that are investigated for the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs and their pragmatic roles. The results of the analysis reveal that the most frequently occurring modal verbs in the corpus are can, will, and would, which perform a range of pragmatic roles that are further discussed in the article.

The Annals of “Ovidius” University of Constanța: Philology Series, 2024

The present article introduces and discusses a quantitative study that examines the use and the f... more The present article introduces and discusses a quantitative study that examines the use and the frequency of discourse markers (further-DMs), which are utilised in speeches on the issue of climate change by the current British monarch, King Charles III (thereafter-the King). The study involved a corpus of the King's speeches on climate change from 2005, when the King was still referred to as His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, to 2023, i.e. one year after his coronation. The corpus was examined in the software program AntConc (Anthony) for the presence of DMs, whose frequency was computed and subsequently processed in the statistical package SPSS (IBM). The results of the qualitative analysis revealed that the King's speeches on the issue of climate change were characterised by such frequently used DMs, as and, as, but, and if. These findings are further discussed and illustrated in the article, which concludes with the summary of the major findings, their implications, limitations and direction for future research.

LANGUAGE: Codification, Competence, Communication, 2024

Whilst climate change discourse has been widely researched (Zurru, 2024), still not much is know... more Whilst climate change discourse has been widely researched (Zurru, 2024), still not much is known about how Greenpeace and, in particular, its New Zealand branch Greenpeace Aotearoa (further-GA) frame their discourses on the issue of climate change. The present article introduces a qualitative study whose research aim is to gain insight into the framing of climate change discourse by GA on its official Facebook page. The results of the qualitative framing analysis have revealed that GA frames its climate change discourse on Facebook via the frames A Battle, A Threat to the Ocean, Climate Extremists, Emissions, Extreme Weather Events, Fast Track, Fossil Fuel, Industrial Animal Farming, and Renewables. The results are further discussed in the article.

Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2024

Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, an... more Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, and discourse studies (Grist 2008; Isopp 2024; Nerlich et al. 2010). Anchored in a quantitative linguistic paradigm, the article presents a mixedmethods study on the use of self-mentions (for instance, I, we, etc.) in a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study aims at establishing the frequencies of the occurrence of self-mentions and learning about their pragmatic roles in the corpus. To that end, the corpus of King Charles III's speeches on climate change was collected and analysed. The results of the corpus analysis indicated that I was the most frequent self-mention, which King Charles III utilised in order to impart a personalised dimension to his discourse on climate change. The findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.

Information & Media, 2024

The issue of climate change has been one of the critical foci of political discourse worldwide (W... more The issue of climate change has been one of the critical foci of political discourse worldwide (Wagner, 2023). Given that political debates and political discourse are quite often communicated on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), for instance Facebook and X (Araújo & Prior, 2021), it appears highly relevant to tap into political actors' discourse on SNSs that addresses the issue of climate change. Guided by the importance of SNSs in political discourse on climate change, the present article introduces and discusses a study on how Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister of the United Kingdom (the UK), frames the issue of climate change on his official Facebook and X accounts. Specifically, the aim of the study was to identify the types of frames used in Sunak's climate change discourse in a corpus of his posts on Facebook and X. The corpus was collected and analysed in accordance with the methodology proposed and developed by Entman (2007). The results of the analysis revealed that Sunak's framing of climate change involved a pragmatic economyoriented aspect, which was presented discursively by imparting it a personalised dimension that involved multimodality. In particular, it was discovered that Sunak frequently framed the issue of climate change via the frames Burden and Green Technology. The findings were discussed in conjunction with the prior research on framing in climate change discourse.

Studia Anglica Resoviensia, 2023

One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) sho... more One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) should master involves their ability to write an argumentative essay, which is adequately supported by credible sources, such as scientific articles, books, and online materials. Arguably, a successful argumentative essay reflects EFL students' genre-appropriate citation practices that, according to Swales (1990), involve several discursive realisations of citation (for instance, integral, non-integral, etc.) in the text. The article presents a study whose aim is to learn about citation and referencing practices in a corpus of argumentative essays written by a group of undergraduate EFL students on the upper-intermediate level of proficiency (henceforth-participants). Anchored in the theoretical framework developed by Swales (1986, 1990), the participants' citation and referencing practices in the corpus were identified and quantified. The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the participants preferred the non-integral type of citation, in which the author/authors cited are mentioned at the end of the citation in the parentheses. The participants' referencing practices were found to be dominated by books and book chapters published by a number of reputable domestic publishing houses.

Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania, 2023

The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study whose aim is to find out how Harrods and ... more The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study whose aim is to find out how Harrods and Liberty, two luxury department stores in London (the United Kingdom) that are referred to as British cultural icons (visitbritain.com 2023), use modality that is expressed by modal verbs (e.g., can) in their discourse on sustainability. Methodologically, the study is based upon the literature (Aiezza 2015; Bu et al. 2020; Garzone & Catenaccio 2022; Kranich & Bicsar 2012), which argues that modal verbs play a number of important pragmatic roles in corporate discourse. Following the literature, it is hypothesised in the study that modal verbs in sustainability discourses by Harrods and Liberty are employed in a pragmatically similar manner. In order to verify the hypothesis, a corpus of Harrods' and Liberty's sustainability discourses is collected and analysed quantitatively in the computer program AntConc (Anthony 2022) to compute the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs. Thereafter, the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus are examined qualitatively to establish their pragmatic roles in Harrods' and Liberty's sustainability discourses. The findings indicate that these discourses make use of the modal verbs will and can as boosters that contribute to a positive corporate image-building.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

This article presents a study that seeks to explore the dynamics of needs experienced by a group ... more This article presents a study that seeks to explore the dynamics of needs experienced by a group of in-service primary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) who are enrolled in a course in English phonetics at a regional university in Norway. The course in English phonetics is designed for the group of EFL teachers (further – participants) who combine working full-time with taking in-service EFL courses. The aim of the study is to explore how the dynamics of the participants’ needs change within the time frame of two semesters. The study is based upon theoretical premises of needs analysis (further – NA) formulated by Hyland (2006), who regards EFL learners’ needs as a continuous process that changes over time. The results of NA indicate that whereas initially the participants explicitly express the need for obtaining tertiary-level education in English to be able to teach English at primary school, their needs change towards the end of the course to involve the foc...

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with ... more The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with modal verbs (e.g., must, would, etc.), is represented in English-medium research articles (henceforth – RAs) that are published in specialised scientific journals that focus on the intersection of climate change-related research and health. The aim of the study was to collect a corpus of RAs published in the international peer-reviewed journals Eco-Environment and Health and The Journal of Climate Change and Health and examine the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs in order to determine the most frequent modals in the corpus. To that end, the corpus was analysed in the software program AntConc (Antony, 2022) in order to establish the frequency of the central modal verbs in English, such as can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. The results of the quantitative investigation revealed that can and may were the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus. The findin...

LANGUAGE: Codification‧Competence‧Communication, 2024

The Bank of England (further – the Bank) is one of the leading actors in the financial sector bot... more The Bank of England (further – the Bank) is one of the leading actors in the
financial sector both in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The Bank is known for
publishing its corporate disclosures on climate change. Whilst they are freely
accessible on the Bank’s official website, there is insufficient research that
investigates them from a qualitative perspective. Seeking to bridge the current gap,
the article presents a qualitative study that aims to establish how the Bank frames
the issue of climate change in its corporate disclosures. The study involves a corpus
of the Bank’s disclosures on climate change published from 2020 to 2024.
The corpus is analysed by means of a qualitative framing methodology. The results
of the corpus analysis show that the Bank frames the issue of climate change as the
following frames (i) an international approach, (ii) the Bank’s leading role, (iii)
carbon footprint reduction, (iv) carbon-neutral economy, (v) renewables, (vi) risk,
and (vii) threat. The findings are discussed in conjunction with the prior studies
on corporate discourse concerning climate change.

Culture. Society. Economy. Politics, 2024

Anglophone mass media frequently cover climate change protest actions associated with damage to f... more Anglophone mass media frequently cover climate change protest actions associated with damage to famous artifacts and heritage sites. The present article introduces a qualitative study whose purpose is to shed light on how the leading Anglophone mass media frame an incident of spraying paint on Stonehenge, a UNESCO-protected World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom (the UK), by two members of the environmental group Just Stop Oil. The study involved a corpus of news coverages of the incident by the leading Anglophone mass media. The corpus
was analyzed using a qualitative framing methodology. The results of the framing analysis revealed that the incident of spraying paint on Stonehenge was communicated via several qualitatively different types of frames (e.g., A Disgraceful Act of Vandalism). The article further
discusses the findings through the prism of an ecolinguistic approach to the media framing of contemporaneous climate change protest actions. The study's conclusions indicate that climate change protest actions nowadays are increasingly related to culturally significant artifacts and,
particularly, UNESCO-protected World Heritage Sites

Journal for Foreign Languages, 2024

The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet i... more The issue of climate change is a serious challenge to human beings, the environment, the planet in general and individual countries in particular (Gardiner, 2024; Yasmin, 2024). As far as the issue of climate change in individual countries is concerned, in the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, climate change resurfaces quite routinely as a topic of political debates by the major political actors (Kapranov, 2024a; Ruiu et al., 2024), who usually regard it through the lens of scientific evidence (Sébastien et al., 2014; Strassheim & Kettunen, 2014). The current British monarch, King Charles III, is also reported to use science-based evidence in his public speeches and written communication on the issue of climate change (Lovelock & Lovelock, 2013). Presently, however, little is known about how evidence, and more specifically, evidentiality are represented in King Charles III’s speeches on this issue. In light of the lack of studies on evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change, the article presents a mixed-methods study, which aims to (i) identify, (ii) classify and (iii) analyse the categories of evidentiality in a corpus of speeches on climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study is informed by the view of evidentiality as a category in its own right (Aikhenvald, 2004), which expresses “the kinds of evidence a person has for making factual claims” (Anderson, 1986: 273). Guided by Aikhenvald’s (2004) classification of evidentiality, the analysis of the corpus revealed that evidentiality in King Charles III’s speeches on climate change was manifested by several categories, namely (i) assumption, (ii) hearsay, (iii) inference, (iv) non-visual sensory, (v) quotative, and (vi) visual. Furthermore, the analysis established that the quotative category of evidentiality was dominant in the corpus. The finding was taken to indicate that King Charles III’s speeches on the issue of climate change involved, to a substantial degree, evidence-based judgements on the matter.

Beyond Philology, 2024

In the Anglophone discursive space, there is a variety of actors, such as the public at large, me... more In the Anglophone discursive space, there is a variety of actors, such as the public at large, media, politicians, and independent environmental organizations (e.g. Greenpeace) that are engaged in climate change communication. In particular, Greenpeace and its national branches, for example Greenpeace Australia Pacific (further – GAP), seem to utilize social networking sites (SNSs), for instance Facebook, in communicating their opinions, calls for action, and news on the issue of climate change. Currently, however, little is known about how GAP frames its climate change communication on Facebook, which is considered one of the leading SNSs worldwide. To fill the existing research gap, the article describes and discusses a qualitative study that aims at learning about how GAP’s climate change communication is framed on Facebook. This is done by means of applying a qualitative framing methodology developed by Entman (1993, 2007, 2010) to the corpus of GAP’s status updates on Facebook. The results of the qualitative framing analysis have revealed that GAP utilizes the following frames in its climate change communication on Facebook: Climate Justice, Climate Strike, Deep-Sea Mining, Extreme Weather Events, Fossil Fuel, Fossil Fuel Corporations, Green Technology, Rising Sea Levels, and Urgency. These findings are further discussed and illustrated in the article.

Anglica Wratislaviensia , 2024

Abstract: Greta Thunberg is an iconic figure, whose engagement in the issues of the environment a... more Abstract: Greta Thunberg is an iconic figure, whose engagement in the issues of the environment
and climate change has made her a household name (Molder et al. 668). Another factor that con-
tributes to her recognizability by millions of people globally involves her active online presence on
social networking sites (SNSs), which she utilizes to communicate her views on climate change-
and environment-related issues (Bergmann and Ossewaarde 267). The article presents a quantita-
tive study on Greta Thunberg’s status updates on Facebook, which are problematized as instances
of life-writing in digital personhood, which involves an online diary afforded by SNSs in general
and Facebook in particular (Ortiz-Vilarelle 9). The study aimed at collecting a corpus of Thunberg’s
Facebook status updates and analysing them quantitatively in order to establish frequently recur -
ring lexical patterns, which shed light onto her preferred ways of construing climate change- and
environment-related discourse. The corpus analysis, which was executed in the software program
AntConc, revealed that Thunberg’s life-writing on Facebook was characterized by such frequently
occurring lexical items, as self-mentions (e.g., we) and the words climate and strike. The findings
were further discussed in detail in the article.

Journal of Education, Society & Multiculturalism, 2024

The education sector has increasingly been involved in informing learners about the issue of clim... more The education sector has increasingly been involved in informing learners about the issue of climate change (Reid, 2019), given that this issue represents an existential threat to young people and, generally, to the human race (Sears, 2020). The education sector has responded to the urgency of climate change by proposing the notion of "climate change education". It can be defined as the process of learning in the face of climate change-related risks and uncertainty (Stevenson et al., 2017). Climate change education is argued to aim at raising primary and secondary school students' awareness of climate change and its consequences (Tang, 2024). Climate change education is embraced by the education sector in a number of Nordic countries, in particular, Norway (Seikkula-Leino et al., 2021). In Norway, for instance, climate change education seems to fall within the scope of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (henceforth-The Directorate), which is responsible for the governance of the education sector from kindergarten to secondary school (Kapranov, 2021). To-date, however, there is no published research on how climate change education is represented in The Directorate's curriculum documents that pertain to pre-primary, primary, and secondary school curricula. Seeking to bridge the current research gap, the article presents a study that looks into this underresearched aspect by means of analysing a corpus of The Directorate's curriculum documents available on its official homepage https://www.udir.no/. The corpus of The Directorate's curriculum documents is investigated in the study by applying an approach to content analysis developed by Krippendorff (2004). The results of the content analysis indicate that climate change education appears to be represented in the corpus in a rather disproportionate manner. Specifically, climate change education is addressed, predominantly, in the curriculum documents in sciences in upper secondary school, whereas it is substantially underrepresented in curriculum documents on pre-primary and primary school levels. These and other findings are further discussed in the article. The

Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania, 2024

The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia of interconnected variables, which inv... more The issue of climate change is reflective of a cornucopia of
interconnected variables, which involve political, societal, as well as ethical
and moral considerations associated with empathy, responsibility,
sustainability, and solidarity (Sadler-Smith & Akstinaite 2022). Due to these
reasons, research in climate change discourse has gained currency in the
present-day linguistic and mass media studies. One of the means of exploring how corporate and political actors view the issue of global climate change involves framing, which is copiously applied in linguistic, mass media, and discourse-related research directions (Gillings & Dayrell 2024; Schlichting 2013). To-date, however, little is known about how climate change discourse is framed by the current British monarch King Charles III. This contribution presents a qualitative study that explores the way climate change discourse is framed by King Charles III. The study involves a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III from 2005 to 2023. The corpus was analysed qualitatively in line with the framing methodology developed by Entman (1993, 2004, 2007). The analysis revealed that climate change was framed as A 2 Degree World, Deforestation, Responsibility, Risk, Sustainability, Threat, and Urgency. The findings and their discussion are further described in the article.

Linguistica Pragensia, 2024

The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency a... more The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency and distribution of reporting verbs (for instance, indicate, posit, etc.) associated with evidentiality that are found in research article abstracts (RAAs) in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics, respectively. Theoretically and methodologically, the study is informed by the literature (Söderqvist, 2020; Szczygłowska, 2022), which demonstrates that reporting verbs may mark evidentiality in scientific discourse. In order to establish the frequency of the occurrence of reporting verbs associated with evidentiality, a corpus of RAAs in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics was collected and, subsequently, analysed in software program AntConc version 4.0.11 (Anthony, 2022). The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that show and suggest were the most frequent reporting verbs associated with evidentiality in the corpus of RAAs in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics alike.

Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2024

Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, an... more Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, and discourse studies (Grist 2008; Isopp 2024; Nerlich et al. 2010). Anchored in a quantitative linguistic paradigm, the article presents a mixedmethods study on the use of self-mentions (for instance, I, we, etc.) in a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study aims at establishing the frequencies of the occurrence of self-mentions and learning about their pragmatic roles in the corpus. To that end, the corpus of King Charles III's speeches on climate change was collected and analysed. The results of the corpus analysis indicated that I was the most frequent self-mention, which King Charles III utilised in order to impart a personalised dimension to his discourse on climate change. The findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.

Sustainable Multilingualism, Nov 30, 2023

Studia Anglica Resoviensia, Dec 28, 2023

One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) sho... more One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) should master involves their ability to write an argumentative essay, which is adequately supported by credible sources, such as scientific articles, books, and online materials. Arguably, a successful argumentative essay reflects EFL students' genre-appropriate citation practices that, according to Swales (1990), involve several discursive realisations of citation (for instance, integral, non-integral, etc.) in the text. The article presents a study whose aim is to learn about citation and referencing practices in a corpus of argumentative essays written by a group of undergraduate EFL students on the upper-intermediate level of proficiency (henceforth-participants). Anchored in the theoretical framework developed by Swales (1986, 1990), the participants' citation and referencing practices in the corpus were identified and quantified. The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the participants preferred the non-integral type of citation, in which the author/authors cited are mentioned at the end of the citation in the parentheses. The participants' referencing practices were found to be dominated by books and book chapters published by a number of reputable domestic publishing houses.

Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2024

The issue of climate change poses a serious challenge to the world we live in. People's concerns ... more The issue of climate change poses a serious challenge to the world we live in. People's concerns with the issue of climate change and environmental agenda are echoed by a number of nongovernmental organisations, for instance, Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GAP), which communicates its views on the matter to the public and selected target groups on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), such as Facebook. Currently, however, there is insufficient scholarship on GAP's communication on SNSs. In particular, little is known about the role of modality in GAP's climate change and environmental discourse on Facebook. The article presents a mixed-methods study that investigates how modality, which is often associated with modal verbs, is used by GAP in its communication on Facebook. The study involves a corpus of GAP's status updates on Facebook that are investigated for the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs and their pragmatic roles. The results of the analysis reveal that the most frequently occurring modal verbs in the corpus are can, will, and would, which perform a range of pragmatic roles that are further discussed in the article.

The Annals of “Ovidius” University of Constanța: Philology Series, 2024

The present article introduces and discusses a quantitative study that examines the use and the f... more The present article introduces and discusses a quantitative study that examines the use and the frequency of discourse markers (further-DMs), which are utilised in speeches on the issue of climate change by the current British monarch, King Charles III (thereafter-the King). The study involved a corpus of the King's speeches on climate change from 2005, when the King was still referred to as His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, to 2023, i.e. one year after his coronation. The corpus was examined in the software program AntConc (Anthony) for the presence of DMs, whose frequency was computed and subsequently processed in the statistical package SPSS (IBM). The results of the qualitative analysis revealed that the King's speeches on the issue of climate change were characterised by such frequently used DMs, as and, as, but, and if. These findings are further discussed and illustrated in the article, which concludes with the summary of the major findings, their implications, limitations and direction for future research.

LANGUAGE: Codification, Competence, Communication, 2024

Whilst climate change discourse has been widely researched (Zurru, 2024), still not much is know... more Whilst climate change discourse has been widely researched (Zurru, 2024), still not much is known about how Greenpeace and, in particular, its New Zealand branch Greenpeace Aotearoa (further-GA) frame their discourses on the issue of climate change. The present article introduces a qualitative study whose research aim is to gain insight into the framing of climate change discourse by GA on its official Facebook page. The results of the qualitative framing analysis have revealed that GA frames its climate change discourse on Facebook via the frames A Battle, A Threat to the Ocean, Climate Extremists, Emissions, Extreme Weather Events, Fast Track, Fossil Fuel, Industrial Animal Farming, and Renewables. The results are further discussed in the article.

Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2024

Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, an... more Climate change discourse provides a fertile ground for research in communication, linguistics, and discourse studies (Grist 2008; Isopp 2024; Nerlich et al. 2010). Anchored in a quantitative linguistic paradigm, the article presents a mixedmethods study on the use of self-mentions (for instance, I, we, etc.) in a corpus of speeches on the topic of climate change delivered by King Charles III. The study aims at establishing the frequencies of the occurrence of self-mentions and learning about their pragmatic roles in the corpus. To that end, the corpus of King Charles III's speeches on climate change was collected and analysed. The results of the corpus analysis indicated that I was the most frequent self-mention, which King Charles III utilised in order to impart a personalised dimension to his discourse on climate change. The findings and their discussion are further presented in the article.

Information & Media, 2024

The issue of climate change has been one of the critical foci of political discourse worldwide (W... more The issue of climate change has been one of the critical foci of political discourse worldwide (Wagner, 2023). Given that political debates and political discourse are quite often communicated on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), for instance Facebook and X (Araújo & Prior, 2021), it appears highly relevant to tap into political actors' discourse on SNSs that addresses the issue of climate change. Guided by the importance of SNSs in political discourse on climate change, the present article introduces and discusses a study on how Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister of the United Kingdom (the UK), frames the issue of climate change on his official Facebook and X accounts. Specifically, the aim of the study was to identify the types of frames used in Sunak's climate change discourse in a corpus of his posts on Facebook and X. The corpus was collected and analysed in accordance with the methodology proposed and developed by Entman (2007). The results of the analysis revealed that Sunak's framing of climate change involved a pragmatic economyoriented aspect, which was presented discursively by imparting it a personalised dimension that involved multimodality. In particular, it was discovered that Sunak frequently framed the issue of climate change via the frames Burden and Green Technology. The findings were discussed in conjunction with the prior research on framing in climate change discourse.

Studia Anglica Resoviensia, 2023

One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) sho... more One of the critical skills that undergraduate students of English as a Foreign language (EFL) should master involves their ability to write an argumentative essay, which is adequately supported by credible sources, such as scientific articles, books, and online materials. Arguably, a successful argumentative essay reflects EFL students' genre-appropriate citation practices that, according to Swales (1990), involve several discursive realisations of citation (for instance, integral, non-integral, etc.) in the text. The article presents a study whose aim is to learn about citation and referencing practices in a corpus of argumentative essays written by a group of undergraduate EFL students on the upper-intermediate level of proficiency (henceforth-participants). Anchored in the theoretical framework developed by Swales (1986, 1990), the participants' citation and referencing practices in the corpus were identified and quantified. The results of the quantitative analysis revealed that the participants preferred the non-integral type of citation, in which the author/authors cited are mentioned at the end of the citation in the parentheses. The participants' referencing practices were found to be dominated by books and book chapters published by a number of reputable domestic publishing houses.

Cultural Perspectives. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania, 2023

The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study whose aim is to find out how Harrods and ... more The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study whose aim is to find out how Harrods and Liberty, two luxury department stores in London (the United Kingdom) that are referred to as British cultural icons (visitbritain.com 2023), use modality that is expressed by modal verbs (e.g., can) in their discourse on sustainability. Methodologically, the study is based upon the literature (Aiezza 2015; Bu et al. 2020; Garzone & Catenaccio 2022; Kranich & Bicsar 2012), which argues that modal verbs play a number of important pragmatic roles in corporate discourse. Following the literature, it is hypothesised in the study that modal verbs in sustainability discourses by Harrods and Liberty are employed in a pragmatically similar manner. In order to verify the hypothesis, a corpus of Harrods' and Liberty's sustainability discourses is collected and analysed quantitatively in the computer program AntConc (Anthony 2022) to compute the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs. Thereafter, the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus are examined qualitatively to establish their pragmatic roles in Harrods' and Liberty's sustainability discourses. The findings indicate that these discourses make use of the modal verbs will and can as boosters that contribute to a positive corporate image-building.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

This article presents a study that seeks to explore the dynamics of needs experienced by a group ... more This article presents a study that seeks to explore the dynamics of needs experienced by a group of in-service primary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) who are enrolled in a course in English phonetics at a regional university in Norway. The course in English phonetics is designed for the group of EFL teachers (further – participants) who combine working full-time with taking in-service EFL courses. The aim of the study is to explore how the dynamics of the participants’ needs change within the time frame of two semesters. The study is based upon theoretical premises of needs analysis (further – NA) formulated by Hyland (2006), who regards EFL learners’ needs as a continuous process that changes over time. The results of NA indicate that whereas initially the participants explicitly express the need for obtaining tertiary-level education in English to be able to teach English at primary school, their needs change towards the end of the course to involve the foc...

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with ... more The article introduces a quantitative study that examines how modality, which is associated with modal verbs (e.g., must, would, etc.), is represented in English-medium research articles (henceforth – RAs) that are published in specialised scientific journals that focus on the intersection of climate change-related research and health. The aim of the study was to collect a corpus of RAs published in the international peer-reviewed journals Eco-Environment and Health and The Journal of Climate Change and Health and examine the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs in order to determine the most frequent modals in the corpus. To that end, the corpus was analysed in the software program AntConc (Antony, 2022) in order to establish the frequency of the central modal verbs in English, such as can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. The results of the quantitative investigation revealed that can and may were the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus. The findin...