Franzisca Weder

List of John Benjamins publications in which Franzisca Weder is involved.

Title

Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change

Edited by Franzisca Weder

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 (2023) vi, 202 pp.

Articles

McLaughlin, Simon and Franzisca Weder 2023 Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament: Resurrecting Aristotle’s deliberative rhetoric as means to ethical, rational, and constructive climate change debate Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change, Weder, Franzisca (ed.), pp. 622–639 | Article

In this conceptual paper, we differentiate between political decisions and the conversations where these decisions are discussed and facilitated. We complement existing work on argumentation in political communication by applying Aristotle’s Rhetoric to the study of climate change debate. We… read more

Weder, Franzisca 2023 Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change: Perspectives on communication for sustainability as new “norm” and principle of action in socio-ecological transformation processes Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change, Weder, Franzisca (ed.), pp. 577–600 | Article

Sustainability has been well used (and abused) as “buzz-word”, label or language token for certain behavior and action in political, organizational and increasingly in individual communication. Based on critical approaches in language, discourse and communication studies, the paper explores… read more