From Climate Change to Climate Hell: The Dynamics of Climate Discourse on Greenpeace Southeast Asia Website

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10.2991/978-2-38476-587-4_2How to use a DOI?

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Climate; Corpus; Discourse; Ecolinguistics; Greenpeace

Abstract

Climate issues have drawn attention from both scientific and humanities perspectives regarding their impacts, mitigation, and dynamics in terms of government policy and public perception. One of the linguistic elements that constructs climate discourse is through words or phrases that show our perception and attitude towards the issue. By conducting a corpus-based approach, this study examines the phrase structures of the noun head climate on Greenpeace Southeast Asia website, focusing specifically on the climate pages. The collected data (9,967 sentences or 251,839 words) was uploaded and examined through a web-based corpus tool, Sketch Engine. The analytical steps included: 1) identifying the noun head climate, 2) examining the distribution of climate noun phrases through corpus query language (CQL), and 3) investigating the contextual use of climate noun phrases through concordances. Findings reveal that the term climate change is the most frequently used phrase in the corpus, aiming to introduce a common understanding of climate change as a natural phenomenon. In addition to the term climate crisis, Greenpeace strategically employs terminology such as climate justice and climate hell to foreground the anthropocentric dimensions of climate change. The metaphorical invocation of climate hell serves as a discursive mechanism aimed at fostering a shared recognition of the catastrophic environmental consequences attributable to the ecologically irresponsible conduct of fossil fuel corporations. This study ultimately concludes that the climate discourse constructed on the Greenpeace Southeast Asia website is profoundly shaped by the organization’s underlying ideological orientation, which is firmly anchored in environmental advocacy and the mobilization of direct action toward climate mitigation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Arina Isti’anah
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/12
TI  - From Climate Change to Climate Hell: The Dynamics of Climate Discourse on Greenpeace Southeast Asia Website
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on English Studies in Indonesia (ICONESIA 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 4
EP  - 14
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-587-4_2
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-587-4_2
ID  - Isti’anah2026
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