Othman Khalid Al-Shboul. The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xix + 271 pp. HB. ISBN 978-3-031-19015-5

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Published online: 14 March 2025

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Othman Khalid Al-Shboul. The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xix + 271 pp. HB. ISBN 978-3-031-19015-5

Othman Khalid Al-Shboul. The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xix + 271 pp. HB. ISBN 978-3-031-19015-5