T4 – Language

The exercise was created 2025-10-24 by vonthax. Question count: 59.

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  • Language constructs social reality Linguistic turn
  • Hidden cognitive models shaping society Stories we live by
  • Cultural narratives structuring thought Cognitive stories
  • Stability through language and discourse Linguistic stability
  • Forgetting stories are “just stories” Naturalization
  • Analyzing language to reveal power Critical ecolinguistics
  • Goal: tell new, sustainable stories Transformative discourse
  • Shared beliefs about how the world is Ideologies
  • Language use by social groups Discourses
  • Control of discourse defines normality Power through discourse
  • Economics portraying humans as selfish Neoclassical ideology
  • Green consumerism as partial care Ambivalent discourse
  • Indigenous or poetic respect for nature Beneficial discourse
  • Evaluate, resist, promote stories Ecolinguistic strategy
  • Using one concept to structure another Framing
  • Restructuring meaning through new lens Reframing
  • Knowledge package shaping understanding Frame
  • Climate as security, market, or violence Climate frames
  • Problem–solution vs. predicament view Frame contrast
  • Development language shifting over time Evolving frames
  • Frames shape moral perception Moral framing
  • Describing one thing through another Metaphor
  • Machine view of nature Destructive metaphor
  • Nature as patient needing help Ambivalent metaphor
  • Nature as web or community Beneficial metaphor
  • Corporation as legal person Person metaphor
  • Corporation as psychopath Critical reframing
  • Metaphors make ideas feel natural Conceptual power
  • Language marking good or bad Evaluation
  • Repeated positive/negative phrasing Appraisal pattern
  • Growth and profit as moral good Economic evaluation
  • Warm weather framed as good Media appraisal
  • Wellbeing over wealth Alternative evaluation
  • Stories define moral direction Linguistic morality
  • Stories defining who we are Identity
  • Social roles shaped by discourse Subject positions
  • Rational price-driven consumer Rational consumer
  • Ethical, value-driven consumer Ethical consumer
  • Masculine competitive identity Masculine consumer
  • Surfer turned eco-activist Identity reframing
  • Identity shifts change behavior Discursive identity
  • Stories about truth or falsity Convictions
  • Degree of certainty or doubt Modality
  • Truth degree assigned to claims Facticity
  • Climate change as settled fact High facticity
  • Authority or data as truth source Legitimization
  • Challenge low-modality arguments Truth defense
  • Making something invisible in language Erasure
  • Completely omitted element Void
  • Only hinted trace remains Trace
  • Replaced or distorted presence Mask
  • Passive and abstract language hides agency Linguistic erasure
  • Who is erased or made visible? Visibility question
  • Making something stand out Salience
  • Restoring erased elements Re-minding
  • Naming and sensory imagery Vividness
  • Individual examples create empathy Personalization
  • Pronouns highlight agency Linguistic focus
  • Showing what matters in discourse Ethical salience

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