This post has been a long time coming, but with the end of senior year (I graduated!) and the continuation of graduate school, I haven’t had time to announce the results properly yet. This past spring, I submitted a paper I wrote for my climate change ecology class on how different newspaper platforms have used climate-centered language throughout the years. I created graphs to understand how word-usage might vary by year, season, and publisher, and ultimately concluded that talk about climate change is mostly affected by the political leaning of the news platform and extreme short-term, rather than sustained long-term, temperature anomalies.
The paper in its full length can be found HERE, on page 19.
discourse around the topic. I know its a little bit unusual for an analysis on climate change, but one of my favorite aspects of college was combining lessons from my classes each semester into final papers. As a linguistics major, this one happens to combine my interests of language and climate change.
Though it was published in a first-edition campus journal, I am so proud to have officially published my first peer-reviewed paper. Though this may be the first, be on the lookout for more as I prepare a paper for publication in the new year…
Happy Holidays to everyone reading and I hope everyone has a warm and healthy New Year!