Stylistic Choices in Climate Change Communication. A Case Study

The paper deals with the different contextual factors that may influence the speaker’s stylistic choices. The perspective taken follows (Kovecses, 2015) who looks at contextual components as frames that are nested in one another: the physical setting as the outermost frame, which includes the social frame that contains the cultural frame and so on, and the innermost frame where we find the speaker, the hearer and the topic The topic under analysis is climate change communication, more precisely the British Prime Minister’s address at the conference known as COP26 (Conference of the Parties, the 26thedition), hosted at Glasgow, at the beginning of November, 2021.