A special purpose corpus, compiled from Web feeds containing so-called lexical Ôcarbon compoundsÕ, such as, for example, carbon credit, carbon diet, carbon sinner, is studied with corpus linguistic tools to explore the online dimension of the interpretative struggle around the issue of climate change mitigation. The analysis reveals semantic associations surrounding the compounds and highlights connotational differences that signal both support and criticism of the climate mitigation initiative

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Sage Internet Research Methods (2012)

ISBN: 9781446241042