- E-mailKjersti.Flottum@uib.no
- Visitor AddressSydnesplassen 7HF-bygget5007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Kjersti Fløttum is professor of French linguistics, Department of foreign languages, University of Bergen. She was vice-rector for international relations 2005-2009 and member of the university board 2013-17 and 2017-21. Fløttum is chair of the Board of the Holberg Prize 2020-2024.
She has had numerous local, national and international commissions of trust.
Her research interests cover text- and genre theory, narrative structures, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic polyphony, and discourse analysis. The major part of her empirical research is oriented towards enunciation, polyphonic (multivoiced), lexico-semantic and narrative analysis of academic, political and climate change discourse. She has led several large projects (KIAP, EURLING, LINGCLIM) and has often collaborated in international and cross-disciplinary contexts. She is since 2012 head of the cross-disciplinary LINGCLIM research group and head of the CLIMLIFE project 2020-2023, focusing on lifestyle issues in a climate perspective, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Fløttum has published substantially in international journals and is co-author of Academic Voices (2006), and editor of Speaking to Europe (2013) and The role of language in the climate change debate (2017).
Fløttum is member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and of Academia Europaea. She is Doctor Honoris Causa, at Uppsala University, Sweden.
LINGCLIM webpage: https://www.uib.no/en/rg/lingclim
Personal webpage: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Kjersti.Flottum
Twitter: @KFlottum
Award for excellent research dissemination at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, 2016
Disseminaton on the role of the humanities in higher education and research, and on the role of language in climate and energy questions, at various arenas and in different media outlets.
Several op-eds in Bergens Tidende. See CV - Outreach.
Co-production of documentary film, with producer Anwar Saab, “1001Films”:
“Talking about climate”, 2016, broadcasted at the Norwegian public channel, NRK2, 2016.
Available at vimeo.com/178449717 and at http://www.uib.no/en/project/lingclim
SELECTION OF INVITED KEYNOTES/GUEST LECTURES: (Media/outreach /conference papers, further down)
-2023: Fløttum, K. 2023. Å forske på klimanarrativer [Doing research on climate narratives].
Høgskulen på Vestlandet, HVL, 10.02.2023.
-2023: Fløttum, K. 2023. "Climate, language, stories and sustainability". Norges miljø-og biovitenskapelige universitet NMBU, MINA321, "Interdisciplinarity and Expert Disagreement on Sustainability", 09.01.2023.
-2022: Fløttum, K. 2022. “De unges holdninger til klima og klimadebatten - med et særlig perspektiv på livsstil”. [Young people’s attitudes towards climate and the climate debate – with a particular perspective on lifestyle]. Webinar – Norwegian research network on sustainability and education, for Norwegian and Danish Research Fellows, 24.05.2022
-2021: Fløttum, K. 2021. “Climate stories – from science and politics to citizens’ opinions.” Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, 21.09.2021.
-2021. Fløttum, K. 2021. “Genre differences, polyphony and role attribution in climate change narratives.” Climate Change Temporalities conference, University of Bergen, 11.-13.08.2021.
2020: Fløttum, K. 2021. "Il y a héros et héros: la construction de rôles narratifs dans quelques genres du discours portant sur le changement climatique." Keynote at Comment parler d’environnement? Héros/hérauts et communication environnementale, conference, 2020-12-09 - 2020-12-11.
2019: Fløttum, K. 2019. “Climate change discourse in a linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspective”, Lisbon, Portugal, 19.03.2019, for European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (COST)
2018: Fløttum, K. 2018. “Narrative analysis of discourse of environmental and climate change”, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan, 28.-29.04.2018
2018: Fløttum, K. 2018. "Parlons du climat. Regards croisés France – Norvège", conference « Les mots du climat », Ministère de la Transition Écologique et Solidaire, Paris 05/07/2018
2018: Fløttum, K. 2018. "Une perspective linguistique et multidisciplinaire sur le discours du changement climatique", Université du Québec à Montréal, 03.04.2018
2017: Fløttum, K. 2017. “Mots du climat”, Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, Paris, 18.12.3017
2016: Fløttum, K. 2016. “Genres of climate change narratives”, Nordisco, The 4th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction, University of Oslo, 25.11.2016.
2015: Fløttum, K. 2015. “Recherches lexico-sémantiques sur un grand corpus de blogs liés aux questions du climat et de l'environnement”, Conference - Enhancing and extending corpora and corpora tools for learning and teaching, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris3, DILTEC & Université Grenoble Alpes, LIDILEM, 19.05.2015
2014: Fløttum, K. 2014. “Språkets rolle i klimautfordringene: lingvistiske og tverrvitenskapelige problemstillinger”, Seminar – Honorary Doctor celebration, Uppsala University, 22.01.2014
2013: Fløttum, K. 2013. Fløttum, K. 2013. “La circulation du discours portant sur le changement climatique : perspectives linguistiques et discursives”, Xe Congrès International de Linguistique Française (CILF), La linguistique française sans frontières, Faculté des Lettres,Université de Cadix, Spain, 28.11.2013
2012: Fløttum, K. 2012. “Variation of academic voices across disciplines and cultures”, Fourth International Congress of Applied Linguistics, University of Belgrade, 12–14.10.2012
2012: Fløttum, K. 2012. “Different voices and different stories: a linguistic and discursive perspective on climate change discourse”, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 05.11.2012
Media / Outreach / Conference papers:
- Fløttum, K. intervjuet av E. T. Lygre, 2023. «Skepsis til klimaskam». https://framtida.no/
02.01.2023.
- Fløttum, K. intervjuet av H. Wiig, 2023. «Nevn ikke Greta!» Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon. https://www.besteforeldreaksjonen.no, 12.01.2023.
-Fløttum, K., Schäfer, M. S. 2022. THE LANGUAGE OF DEBATE AND COMMUNICATION ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IN FLANDERS. Report of the Thinkers Cycle of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In collaboration with Kristin Davidse, Anne-Marie Vandenbergen & Wout van Praet. Brussels: KVAB, the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (66 pages).
- Fløttum, K., Perron, E. 2022. RAPPORT - CLIMLIFE-UNDERSØKELSE OM ELDRES (65+) PERSPEKTIVPÅ KLIMA OG LEVEMÅTE. Bergen: Institutt for fremmedspråk, Universitetet i Bergen 2021. https://www.uib.no/en/rg/lingclim/139228/climlife
- Fløttum, K., Perron, E. 2022. «Eldre og unge er enige om å leve klimavennlig, men ikke om hvem som er best». Populærvitenskapelig kronikk. forskersonen.no - 21.11.2022.
-Elgesem, D., Fløttum, K. 2022. Political measures and individual choices of climate friendly behavior. Presentation at Dahlberg seminar, DIGSSCORE, UiB; 23.-24.06.2022.
-Fløttum, K. 2022. Bergens klimaambisjoner er mer gulrot enn pisk. Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, 17.07.2022. https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/MLOPp0/bergens-klimaambisjoner-er-mer-gulrot-enn-pisk
-Fløttum, K. 2022. De unges holdninger til klima og klimadebatten - med et særlig perspektiv på livsstil. Foredrag PhD-webinar - Nasjonalt forskernettverk for bærekraft og utdanning; HVL, 25.05.2022.
-Fløttum, K. 2022. De unge viser vei for et klimavennlig liv og vil mer enn å skolestreike. Foredrag på Klimakafé for Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon, Bergen Kunsthall, 24.02.2022. https://www.kunsthall.no/no/arrangement/2473-2022-03-24/
-Fløttum, K. 2022. Citizens’ motivations for change or no change of lifestyle in a climate perspective. Lecture at seminar for the course CET201 - Sustainable Innovation, UiB; 23.03.2022.
-Fløttum, K. 2022. De unge viser vei men ikke alt er lett å endre. Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, 09.03.2022. https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/mrd674/de-unge-viser-vei-men-ikke-alt-er-lett-aa-endre
-Fløttum, K. 2022. «Villig til å gjøre det meste, men det kan bli vanskelig siden jeg er vant med noe annet» De unges meninger om å leve klimavennlig. Foredrag, Bergen Rotary. 01.03.2022.
-Fløttum, K., Elgesem, D., Andersen, I. V., Falck, R., Wolrath-Söderberg, M. 2022. Voices on lifestyle in a climate change perspective. Presentation at DayZero, SDG conference; UiB. 08.02.2022.
-Fløttum, K. 2022. Unge bergenseres syn på livsstil i et klimaperspektiv. Foredrag, Lærernes Dag, UiB. 28.01.2022.
-Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Scheurer, J. 2021. RAPPORT – CLIMLIFE-skoleundersøkelse om de unges perspektiv på klima og levemåte. Bergen: Institutt for fremmedspråk, Universitetet i Bergen 2021. https://www.uib.no/en/rg/lingclim/139228/climlife
-Fløttum, K. 2021. People’s expressed motivations for action and change of everyday lifestyle. Paper at Beyond Oil-conference. Bergen, 20.-21.10.2021.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. Klima og ungdom: holdninger til medborgerskap/demokrati og bærekraft. Presentasjon for Bergen kommune/klimaetatens lærerkurs for medvirkningsprosess i skolen: Ny klimastrategi; 06.10.2021.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. Skoleundersøkelse: Klima og livsstil. Presentasjon på møte med Klimaetaten i Bergen kommune; 27.08.2021.
-Fløttum, Kjersti; Scheurer, Jana Paulina; Andersen, Ida Vikøren; Falck, Runa; Lygren, Solveig Helene. 2021. Unge bergenseres syn på klimaendringer, livsstil, skam og pandemien. Presentasjon og paneldebatt på Klimafestivalen §112 – Litteraturhuset i Bergen; 07.06.2021.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. De unge vil mer enn å skolestreike. Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, 06.06.2021. https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/Ep6PEo/de-unge-vil-mer-enn-aa-skolestreike
Fløttum, K., Elgesem, D. 2021. Citizen opinions about authorities’ (lack of) facilitation of climate-friendly lifestyle choices. Presentation at DIGSSCORE seminar; 13.04.2021.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. Représentation linguistique de l’avenir dans des blogs climatiques francophones. Présentation à Communication et risques climatiques, colloque; Académie des controverses et de la communication sensible, Louvain (webinar),16.03.2021.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. Perspectives linguistiques et discursives sur le changement climatique. Forelesning, Universitetet i Oslo, webinar. 15.03.2022.
-Fløttum, K. 2021. Ord og stemmer i klimadebatten. Artikkel i REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora 2021 (50) s. 34-43
-Fløttum, K., Kjeldsen, J. E. 2020. Bruken av ordet "klimakrise". Intervju i NRK, P2, Studio 2 [Radio], 15.12.2020. https://radio.nrk.no/serie/studio-2-p2/MKRD04025020
-Fløttum, K. 2020. Ord og tekstlig innramming i klimadebatten. Foredrag for NRKs klimaredaksjon, 19.11.2020.
-Fløttum, K. 2020. Nordmenn og klimaengasjement. Artikkel i Syn og Segn, 126, 57-63.
-Fløttum, K. 2020. «Lille jeg» i klimadebatten. Artikkel i Språkprat, 08.05.2020.
https://sprakprat.no/2020/05/08/lille-jeg-i-klimadebatten/
-Fløttum, K. 2020. Hva skal til for å få oss til å leve mer klimavennlig? Kronikk i Bergens
Tidende 14.03.2020 https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/lA5E39/hva-skal-til-for-aa-faa-oss...
-Fløttum, K. 2020. The climate change issue in a linguistic / discursive perspective. «From Growth to Balance» - Designing Possible Futures; Lecture at Faculty of Fine Art, Music and design, UiB, 11.03.2020.
-Fløttum, K. 2020. Hva kan «lille jeg» gjøre med klimaendringene? Nordmenns holdninger til å endre livsstil - i et språklig perspektiv. Foredrag på Faglig-pedagogisk dag, UiB;31.01.2020.
-Atanasova, Dimitrinka; Fløttum, Kjersti. 2019. Climate change or climate crisis? To really engage people, the media should talk about solutions. Article in The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/climate-change-orclimate-
crisis-to-really-engage-people-the-media-should-talk-about-solutions-118004
-Fløttum, K. 2019. Hvordan brukes vær og ekstremvær i klimadebatten?. Paneldebatt: Apokalypse snart – eller regner bekymringen vekk?; Forskningsdagene i Bergen, Bergen offentlige bibliotek, 2019-09-26.
-Fløttum, K. 2019. Perspectives linguistiques sur les discours portant sur le changement climatique. Conférence au IIIe Congrès de l'Association pour les études nordiques; Université de Strasbourg, 2019-06-14.
-Fløttum, K. 2019. Språk og virkelighetsforståelse i den norske klimadebatten. Forelesning på VIT212-seminar, UiB; 2019-09-24.
-Fløttum, K. 2019. Ta til vettet. Ikke gjør klimaspørsmålet til en krig om ord. Kronikk, Bergens Tidende 2019-07-31, https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/4qVVeV/ta-til-vettet-ikke-gjoer-kl...
-Fløttum, Kjersti; Langaas, Runa Falck. 2019. Individuals’ opinions about lifestyle in a climate change perspective. Conference paper, “Beyond Oil”, CET, Bergen, 2019-10-16 - 2019-10-17.
-Fløttum, Kjersti; Martincic, Julia. 2019. Vi må snakke om været. Intervju, Klassekampen 2019-04-17.
-Fløttum, Kjersti; Sardier, Thibaut. 2019. Peurs bleues et idées vertes. Interview, Libération, 2019-05-09.
-Pilskog, Ingjald; Viste, Ellen; Fløttum, Kjersti; Svendsen, Lea. 2019. Blir klimaet bedre om vi snakker norsk? PODCAST. Media City Bergen - Bjerknessenteret, Universitetet i Bergen [Internett] 2019-05-21.
-Tangeraas Lygre, Eirik; Fløttum, Kjersti; Stoknes, Per Espen. 2019. Slik kan betre språk redda klima. Intervju, framtida.no Magasinett [Avis] 2019-05-27.
-Tvinnereim, Endre; Fløttum, Kjersti; Lægreid, Ole Martin. 2019. Norwegian citizens' associations with "oil and gas", "energy" and "transition". Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on pathways to energy transition; Conference, University of Bergen, 2019-05-13.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Behovet for humanistisk kunnskap øker. Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, 06.10.2018. https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/BJKLQg/behovet-for-humanistisk-kunnskap-oeker
-Dahl, Trine; Fløttum, Kjersti. 2018. Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports. 8th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; University of Cardiff, 17.-19.09.2018.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Discours portant sur le changement climatique: représentation et
interprétation. Table ronde "Impact des changements climatiques", Université du Québec à
Montréal; 2018-04-06.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Le discours sur le changement climatique. Table ronde Québec-Scandinavie sur l’avenir du livre; Université du uébec à Montréal; 2018-04-04.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Endring, kaos eller krig? Om språkbruk i klimadebatten på norsk og på fransk (podcast). Institutt for fremmedspråk, Universitetet i Bergen [Internett] 2018-08-17.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Images de l'avenir dans une perspective environnementale et
climatique. Journées d’étude en l’honneur de Jacques Bres; Université de Montpellier, 2018-09-06- 2018-09-07.
-Fløttum, K. 2018.Language and climate action – conceptions and expressions of responsibility and obligation. DIGSSCORE&ENERGYLAB seminar, University of Bergen, 2018-01-23.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Ordenes meningspotensial og innramming – hvilke ord kan eller skal man velge i klimaspørsmålet?. UiB - VIT212 - Tverrfaglig klimaemne; 2018-09-20.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Parlons du climat. Regards croisés France – Norvège. Les mots du climat,
conférence, Ministère de la Transition Écologique et Solidaire, Paris, 2018-07-05.
-Fløttum, K. 2018. Quelles conceptions du « changement climatique » en France et en Norvège ? Résultats de deux enquêtes. 6e Congrès mondial de linguistique française – CMLF, Université de Mons; 2018-07-09 - 2018-07-13
-Fløttum, Kjersti; Torgersen, Eilin Holtan; Rørtveit, Bodil Lunde. 2018. Klimaets uttrykksformer – språk, musikk og dans. "Tampen brenner", Litteraturhuset i Bergen; 2018-03-20
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Citizens’ stories about climate change solutions. International Pragmatics
Conference – IprA, Belfast; 2017-07-16 - 2017-07-21.
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Feriereiser med fly gir vi ikke slipp på. Bergens Tidende 2017-08-21.
https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/GVob6/feriereiser-med-fly-gir-vi-i...
-Fløttum, K. Godt klima for språk. Intervju skrevet av Ole Våge. Språknytt 2017 ;Volum 45.(1) s.14-16.
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Hvilke "fortellinger" hører vi i klimadebatten, hvilke aktører finner vi? Hva tenker folk flest om klimaspørsmålet og eventuelle løsninger?. "Det lille mennesket i møte med den store verden"; NLA, Bergen, 2017-01-16.
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Hvordan brukes språket til å formidle ulike aktørers tanker, holdninger og
politikk om klimautfordringene? Klima: Hva vet vi? Hva bør vi gjøre? (VIT212), Universitetet i Bergen; 2017-10-03.
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Når det snakkes om klima - et språkvitenskapelig perspektiv. Innspillseminar om kulturforskning til revisjon av Langtidsplan for forskning og høyere utdanning; Kulturdepartementet, 2017-09-06.
-Fløttum, K. 2017. Språkets rolle i klimadebatten - i et tverrfaglig perspektiv. Møte i Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi; 2017-11-02.
-Fløttum, K. & Gjerstad, Ø. 2017. Klimafortellinger: Hva sier egentlig Parisavtalen og
statslederne? Faglig-pedagogisk dag, Universitetet i Bergen, 2017-02-03.
-Fløttum, K. & Tvinnereim, E. 2016. Folk vil bidra til klimakutt. Energi og Klima : Norsk
klimastiftelses nettmagasin 2016.
-Fløttum, K. 2016. Citizens' preferences for tackling climate change. Analysis of their freely
formulated solutions. Sustainable Future - Fundamental Geoscience, Geo-Resources, Hazards and Climate; Norwegian Education and Research Delegation to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro,
2016-09-22 -2016-09-23.
-Fløttum, K. 2016. Et diplomatisk kunststykke. Bergens Tidende 2016-11-05.
https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/jjpzo/et-diplomatisk-kunststykke
-Fløttum, K. 2016. Folks preferanser og politikeres prioriteringer i klimaspørsmålet: språklig
harmoni eller disharmoni på veien mot et nullutslippsamfunn?. Arendalsuka; 2016-08-18.
-Fløttum, K. 2014. Hører følelser og klima sammen? Forskningsdagene i Bergen, Forskning
UNG. Foredrag i samarbeid med Maria Sleire, Langhaugen vgs og Jonas Stensvoll, Bergen
Katedralskole, 26.09.2014. Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen.
-Fløttum, K. 2014. Klima, språk og meningsmangfold. Foredrag ved debattkveld «Språkmakt!
Tåketale, desinformasjon eller hersketeknikk?», 22.09.2014. Bergen: Litteraturhuset i Bergen.
-Fløttum, K. 2014. Språkbruk om klima - og fremtid. «Mandagsforedrag» på Bryggens
Museum, 22.09.2014. Bergen: Bryggens Museum. http://www.bymuseet.no/?vis=1251
-Tvinnereim, E., Fløttum, K., Ivarsflaten, E. 2014. Norsk ungdom: Klimaendringene er i stor grad menneskeskapte. Energi og Klima : Norsk klimastiftelses
nettmagasin 28.05.2014.http://energiogklima.no/kommentar-analyse/norsk-ungdomklimaendringene-er...
-Fløttum, K. 2014. "Klimafortellinger" - et flerstemmig møte mellom helter, skurker, ofre - og
andre. Alumnusdager, 10.05.2014. Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen.
-Fløttum, K. 2014. Ungdom og klima: Optimister og bekymret. Energi og Klima : Norsk
klimastiftelses nettmagasin 29.04.2014. http://energiogklima.no/kommentar-analyse/ungdom-ogklima-optimister-og-b...
-Fløttum, K. 2014. Språk og klima. Sakprosabloggen 21.03.2014. http://sakprosabloggen.no/2014/03/21/kva-granskarsakprosaforskarane-3/
-Fløttum, K. 2014 "Ungdom og klima: Optimister og bekymret", Energi og Klima, Norsk
Klimastiftelses nettmagasin, 29.04.2014
-Fløttum, K. 2013. Språket påvirker klimadebatten. Kronikk, Bergens
Tidende 16.06.2013.http://www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/Spraket-pavirker-klimadebatten-
2915193.html
Energi og klima, 17.06.2013: http://energiogklima.no/kommentar-analyse/spraket-pavirkerklimadebatten/
-Fløttum, K. 2013. Narration et polyphonie dans le discours climatique. Conférence invitee,
18.04.2013. Caen: Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Laboratoire CRISCO
-Fløttum, K. 2013. Le changement du climat dans une perspective linguistique et discursive : le cas de documents politiques de l'Afrique du Sud. 16.10.2013. Yaoundé: Université de Yaoundé
-Fløttum, K. 2013. Klimadiskurs - fra enkeltord til fortellinger med ‘helter’, ‘skurker’ og ‘ofre’. 03.09.2013. Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen (VIT212)
-Fløttum, K. 2013. Har språk noe med klima å gjøre? LINGCLIM-prosjektet: Språkanalyse,
spørreundersøkelser og psykologiske eksperiment for å forstå mer av klimadebatten.
04.11.2013. Fagdag for språklærere og rådgivere. Bergen: Universitetet i Bergen
-Fløttum K. 2013 "A narrative and linguistic perspective on Norway´s official climatechange policy – one or several «stories»?" SAMKUL conference 2013-10-22
-Drange,H., Fløttum,K., Rivenes, V., Gjerstad, Ø. 2013 "Hvordan ser Norge ut i 2050", Kronikk Bergens Tidene, 2013-08-29, https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/kronikk/i/5bqyz/hvordan-ser-norge-ut-i-2050
-Fløttum K. 2013 "Forvirrende klimadebatt, varierende engasjement og språkets rolle,
KRAFTKOM conference, Energi Norge, 2013-08-28
-Fløttum, K. 2013 "Hvordan påvirkes vi av ordene deres" (interview with Haugesund
Avis) Haugesund avis 2013-08-12
-Fløttum, K. 2013. ”Hva har språk med klima å gjøre?” (Presentasjon av LINGCLIM-prosjektet). Kursdag for lærere i vgs, Hordaland, Energi for framtida – i norsk, samfunnsfag og naturfag. Skolelaboratoriet i realfag, Universitetet i Bergen, 2013-03-14.
-Fløttum, K. 2013. ”Hvordan virker ordene – trenger klimadebatten et nytt språk?” Klima på
dagsorden, workshop om klimaformidling, Miljøverndepartementet / Klif, Oslo 2013-01-15.
-Fløttum, K. 2012. ”Forsker på klimaspråkbruk” (Intervju). Bergens Tidende 2012-12-02.
-Fløttum, K., Dahl, T. 2012. “Voices in context. Different Voices, Different Stories: Perspectives on Language Use in Climate Change Text and Talk”. Conference - Voices in context; Bergen, 2012-10-25.
-Fløttum, K. 2012. ”Klimadebattens mange stemmer og fortellinger”. ALUMNITREFF,
Universitetet i Bergen, 2012-08-28.
-Fløttum, K. 2012. ”Har språk og klima noe med hverandre å gjøre?” Fagdag for nye studenter ved Det humanistiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen; 2012-08-15.
-Dokken, T. M., Drange, H., Fløttum, K. 2010. ”Hva som sies og formidles, og
hvorfor!” Morgenbladet 2010-05-07.http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/filer/1520.pdf
-Fløttum, K. 2010. ”Klima er ikke det samme som vær” (kronikk). Bergens Tidende 2010-03-
25.http://www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/Klima-er-ikke-det-samme-som-var-177330...
-Fløttum, K., St. Clair, A. L., Drange, H. 2009. “Bergen kan bidra”. Kronikk, Bergens
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French grammar at Bachelor level, text-linguistics at Master's level and linguistic polyphony and discourse analysis at Master's and PhD levels.
Discourse analysis of academic, political and climate-related discours.
I also give lectures on language use in the climate change debate at other departments and faculties of the University of Bergen.
New course 2021-2023: KLIMA200, UiB, cross-disciplinary course for undergratuates on climate narratives.
- (2021). Natur og menneske i et språklig klimaperspektiv. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 39-60.
- (2021). Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse. European Policy Analysis. 386-404.
- (2021). Climate change and lifestyle: people’s expressed motivations to adopt or not adopt a climate-friendly way of life . ASp. 75-94.
- (2020). Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum. Energy Research & Social Science. 1-10.
- (2020). Le changement climatique en discours. Cahiers de praxématique.
- (2019). Future and climate: representations of the future in French language blogs related to climate change. . Mots: Les langages du politique. 15 pages.
- (2018). Quelles conceptions du « changement climatique » en France et en Norvège ? . SHS Web of Conferences.
- (2017). Verbal–visual harmony or dissonance? A news values analysis of multimodal news texts on climate change. Discourse, Context & Media. 124-131.
- (2017). Stories about Climate Change in Political and Survey Discourse. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). 21-38.
- (2017). Roles of the author and references to other sources. Comparaison - written and oral. . CHIMERA: Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies. 117-143.
- (2017). People's climate change engagement and willingness to act. Tvergastein. 80-90.
- (2017). Les voix des jeunes sur le climat, l’environnement et l’énergie. Le discours et la langue. 13-16.
- (2017). Climate narratives in different genres. Sakprosa. 1-28.
- (2017). Citizens' preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions. Global Environmental Change. 34-41.
- (2016). Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: findings from a climate concerned and oil-rich nation. Journal of Youth Studies. 1128-1143.
- (2015). Linguistic and discursive perspectives on the circulation of the climate change discourse . Cahiers de praxématique.
- (2015). Explaining topic prevalence in answers to open-ended survey questions about climate change. Nature Climate Change. 744-747.
- (2014). Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change. Global Environmental Change. 213-222.
- (2014). Norwegian climate narratives - how many "stories"? A linguistic and discursive analysis of two Norwegian white papers. Sakprosa. 1-18.
- (2014). Linguistic mediation of climate change discourse. ASp. 7-20.
- (2014). Il y a polyphonie et polyphonie. Arena Romanistica. 7-20.
- (2014). IPCC communicative practices: A linguistic comparison of the Summary for Policymakers 2007 and 2013. The LSP Journal - Language for special purposes, professional communication, knowledge management and cognition. 66-83.
- (2014). Conceptualisations de la notion du futur dans les blogs portant sur les changements de climat. Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée. 33-48.
- (2014). A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate. Text & Talk. 401-420.
- (2013). Voix citées dans le discours sur le changement climatique : comparaison de deux textes journalistiques français et anglais. Arena Romanistica. 54-73.
- (2013). The Role of social justice and poverty in South Africa’s National climate change response white paper. South African journal on human rights. 61-90.
- (2013). . "Je vous cite une dernière fois, Monsieur le Président...". Emploi polyphonique des termes d'adresse dans le débat parlementaire. Cahiers de praxématique. 117-131.
- (2011). "Je vous cite une dernière fois, Monsieur le Président...". Emploi polyphonique des termes d'adresse dans le débat parlementaire. Cahiers de praxématique. 117-132.
- (2010). A linguistic and discursive view on climate change discourse. ASp. 19-37.
- (2000). Polyfoni i Knut Hamsuns novelle "En ærkeskjelm". Polyphonie-linguistique et littéraire. 1-14.
- (2000). Le résumé scientifique - texte monophonique ou polyphonique ? Technostyle. 7-30.
- (2000). Combining linguistic and literary perspectives on polyphony - a methodological challenge. Polyphonie-linguistique et littéraire. 15-30.
- (1999). Typologie textuelle et polyphonie : quelques questions. Tribune : Skriftserie for Romansk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. 81-96.
- (1998). Teksttype og polyfoni. HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business. 59-78.
- (2024). Klima, språkbruk, motivasjon for handling 2.
- (2024). Klima, språkbruk, motivasjon for handling 1.
- (2024). Citizens’ preferences for motivating language and argumentation on lifestyle issues in a climate context.
- (2023). Å forske på klimanarrativer.
- (2023). «Vi prøver, men det er krevende!» Unge stemmer om å endre levemåte i et klimaperspektiv.
- (2023). Young citizens’ opinions about and attitudes towards climate change, lifestyle and political influence - research in and outside the classroom.
- (2023). The climate communicator’s challenge: What words and arguments motivate citizens to lifestyle change?
- (2023). Narrative roles of citizens in the climate “battle”: French survey of people’s opinions on possibilities for and obstacles to climate action.
- (2023). Climate change, stories and language.
- (2023). CLIMLIFE project.
- (2022). Voices on lifestyle in a climate change perspective.
- (2022). Unge bergenseres syn på livsstil i et klimaperspektiv.
- (2022). Political measures and individual choices of climate friendly behavior.
- (2022). Les controverses du changement climatique en France et en Norvège : une analyse thématique et polyphonique.
- (2022). De unges holdninger til klima og klimadebatten - med et særlig perspektiv på livsstil .
- (2022). Citizens’ motivations for change or no change of lifestyle in a climate perspective .
- (2021). Représentation linguistique de l’avenir dans des blogs climatiques francophones.
- (2021). People’s expressed motivations for action and change of everyday lifestyle.
- (2021). Genre differences, polyphony and role attribution in climate change narratives.
- (2021). Citizen opinions about authorities’ (lack of) facilitation of climate-friendly lifestyle choices.
- (2020). The climate change issue in a linguistic / discursive perspective.
- (2020). Il y a héros et héros: la construction de rôles narratifs dans quelques genres du discours portant sur le changement climatique.
- (2019). The influence of worldviews on the recollection and communication of climate change narratives.
- (2019). Recollecting climate change narratives: The role of worldviews.
- (2019). Perspectives linguistiques sur les discours portant sur le changement climatique.
- (2019). Norwegian citizens’ associations with “oil and gas”, “energy” and “transition”.
- (2019). Norwegian citizens' associations with "oil and gas", "energy" and "transition".
- (2019). Methodological approaches in the LINGCLIM group – various genres of climate change discourse.
- (2019). Le discours portant sur le changement climatique dans trois perspectives polyphoniques .
- (2019). Individuals’ opinions about lifestyle in a climate change perspective.
- (2019). How worldviews shape the recollection and communication of climate change narratives.
- (2019). How people recollect and communicate climate change narratives: The role of worldviews.
- (2019). Climate change narratives and worldviews: A role of constructive memory.
- (2019). Climate change discourse in a linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspective.
- (2018). What conceptions of “climate change” in France and in Norway? Results of two surveys.
- (2018). Une perspective linguistique et multidisciplinaire sur le discours du changement climatique.
- (2018). Parlons du climat. Regards croisés France – Norvège.
- (2018). Ordenes meningspotensial og innramming – hvilke ord kan eller skal man velge i klimaspørsmålet?
- (2018). Narrative analysis of discourse of environmental and climate change.
- (2018). Motivated reconstruction of memory: How worldviews shape the recollection and communication of climate change narratives.
- (2018). Language and climate action – conceptions and expressions of responsibility and obligation.
- (2018). Images de l'avenir dans une perspective environnementale et climatique.
- (2018). Climate change as a corporate strategy issue A discourse analysis of three climate reports .
- (2017). The role of language in the climate change issue – a cross-disciplinary initiative.
- (2017). Språkets rolle i klimadebatten - i et tverrfaglig perspektiv.
- (2017). Norwegian citizens' conception of energy and energy transition.
- (2017). Negation in survey discourse about climate change.
- (2017). Langage et climat.
- (2017). Hvordan brukes språket til å formidle ulike aktørers tanker, holdninger og politikk om klimautfordringene?
- (2017). Hvilke "fortellinger" hører vi i klimadebatten, hvilke aktører finner vi? Hva tenker folk flest om klimaspørsmålet og eventuelle løsninger?
- (2017). Citizens’ stories about climate change solutions.
- (2017). Associations évoquées par le phénomène non observable du climat en France et en Norvège.
- (2017). A linguistic and methodological view on open-ended questions and Structural Topic Modelling.
- (2016). “Citizens’ stories on climate change and solutions”.
- (2016). Genres of climate change narratives.
- (2016). From thinking about climate change to willingness of action.
- (2016). Citizens' preferences for tackling climate change. Analysis of their freely formulated solutions.
- (2015). The LINGCLIM Project – an overview.
- (2015). The IPCC narrative(s) - themes, actors and storylines.
- (2015). RECHERCHES LEXICO-SEMANTIQUES SUR UN GRAND CORPUS DE BLOG LIES AUX QUESTIONS DU CLIMAT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT.
- (2015). Når ungdom er med på å påvirke forskningen.
- (2015). Klimadebatten: mange stemmer og mange budskap.
- (2015). Folks formuleringer om klima.
- (2015). En lingvistisk tilnærming til studien av (politiske) narrativer.
- (2015). Climate Change Narratives and People's Worldviews.
- (2015). Academic discourse in the double perspective of discipline and language.
- (2014). What do we talk about when we talk about climate change? Explaining topic prevalence in open-ended survey answers.
- (2014). Språkets rolle i klimautfordringene. Lingvistiske og tverrvitenskapelige problemstillinger.
- (2014). Språkets rolle i klimadebatten.
- (2014). Språkbruk i klimadebatten – hvordan språket konstruerer ulike fortellinger.
- (2014). Representation of future perspectives related to climate change in the blogosphere.
- (2014). Linguistic representations and interpretations of climate change discourse.
- (2014). Les voix des jeunes portant sur le climat, l’environnement, l’énergie – et l’avenir.
- (2014). Le rôle du langage dans le débat sur le changement climatique.
- (2014). Le projet LINGCLIM – et quelques approches et résultats.
- (2014). IPCC's representations of uncertainty/certainty in a linguistic and discursive perspective.
- (2014). De la réfutation à la description : la négation comme outil rhétorique dans le discours sur les changements climatiques.
- (2014). Converging or diverging messages? Verbal and visual representations of climate change in two British newspapers reporting on the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report.
- (2014). Climate change discourse.
- (2014). Climate Change Policies: how do governments linguistically construct their agendas? The case of South-African and Norwegian White Papers.
- (2013). Nasjonale og europeiske stemmer i Europaparlamentet.
- (2013). Narration et polyphonie dans le discours climatique.
- (2013). Mediation of climate change.
- (2013). L’idéal d’objectivité journalistique dans le débat climatique : la relation entre l’auteur et les voix externes.
- (2013). Le changement du climat dans une perspective linguistique et discursive : le cas de documents politiques de l'Afrique du Sud.
- (2013). La circulation du discours portant sur le changement climatique : perspectives linguistiques et discursives.
- (2013). Klimadiskurs - fra enkeltord til fortellinger med ‘helter’, ‘skurker’ og ‘ofre’.
- (2013). Communicating 'wicked problems' at the interface between science and politics: the example of climate change.
- (2013). A narrative and linguistic perspective on Norway's official climate change policy - one or several "stories"?
- (2012). Voices in context.
- (2012). Variation of academic voices across disciplines and cultures.
- (2012). The role of social justice and poverty in South Africa’s climate change "White paper” - linguistic and discursive analysis.
- (2012). Présentation du projet et du corpus KIAP.
- (2012). Do words matter? On the Role of Language in the Construction, Circulation and Reception of Climate Knowledge.
- (2012). Different voices and different stories: a linguistic and discursive perspective on climate change discourse.
- (2012). Believers, sceptics and deniers: Voices and positions in the climate debate.
- (2011). Représentation de voix scientifiques dans le discours politique : le cas du changement climatique.
- (2011). Nominal terms of address in EU-parliamentary French debate. Polyphony and Argumentation.
- (2011). Consensus versus diversité : un regard sur le débat du changement climatique.
- (2011). Climate change discourse in a narrative perspective.
- (2011). COP 15 et les espérances brisées au Parlement européen.
- (2011). A macro- and micro-linguistic analysis of the South-African Green paper "National Climate Change Response".
- (2010). The Place of National Origin versus European Mission in EU Presidency Speeches.
- (2010). Science and politics in discourse. Examples: IPCC Summary for policymakers (2007) and ACCESS position paper (2009).
- (2010). Mélange de voix dans le discours des Présidents de l’Union européenne.
- (2010). Mélange de voix dans le Parlement européen.
- (2010). Klimanarrativer i et språklig og diskursivt perspektiv.
- (2010). Framing research on development impacts of climate change narratives.
- (2010). Diversité discursive au Parlement européen - la place de "l'Europe" vs "le national" vs "le moi” AND/ET Les narratifs du changement de climat - entre discours scientifique et politique.
- (2010). Climate change discourse: Scientific claims in a policy setting.
- (2010). Climate change discourse - Scientific claims in a policy setting.
- (2010). Climate change - from scientific papers to multivoiced narratives.
- (2010). Between science and politics: a linguistic and discursive view on climate discourse.
- (2009). Études contrastives du discours de recherche en anglais, en français et en norvégien.
- (2009). Kulturell identitet og akademiske stemmer i et tverrfaglig/flerfaglig og flerspråklig perspektiv.
- (2009). Hybridité politique, culturelle et discursive dans le Parlement européen.
- (2009). EU discourse – a linguistic approach to a multivoiced arena.
- (2009). Cultural identities and academic voices in a cross-disiplinary and cross-linguistic perspective.
- (2008). Voix européennes et voix nationales dans le discours politique de l'Union européenne.
- (2008). Standardisation versus diversification dans les écrits scientifiques : une perspective comparative de langue et de discipline.
- (2008). Doctoral training – supervision – internationalisation.
- (2007). Polyphony in speeches by Tony Blair.
- (2007). Authorial presence in research articles (KIAP project) – the case of the French pronoun ’on’.
- (2007). Argumentation through author presence and polyphony in the genre of the research article.
- (2006). Texte, contexte et interdisciplinarité.
- (2006). Snapshots from the KIAP project.
- (2006). Construire et analyser un corpus d'articles scientifiques : l'exemple du Corpus KIAP (www.uib.no/kiap).
- (2006). Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective. NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe.
- (2006). Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective.
- (2005). The typical research article - does it exist?
- (2005). Norsk vitskapleg språkbruk i kontrast til engelsk og fransk.
- (2005). Les "personnes" dans le discours scientifique: le cas du pronom ON.
- (2005). La polyphonie linguistique et le défi de l�analyse discursive - exemples tirés du discours scientifique.
- (2005). Introduction � diaphonique � à la ScaPoLine - théorie SCAndinave de la POlyphonie LINguistiquE.
- (2005). Fra problemstilling via korpus til nye problemstillinger.Om KIAP-prosjektets bruk av korpus i studiet av sjangeren vitenskapelig artikkel.
- (2005). Forfattermanifestasjon i vitenskapelige artikler. Om KIAP�prosjektet - en flerspråklig og flerdisiplinær studie.
- (2005). Application de la théorie scandinave de la polyphonie linguistique (ScaPoLine) sur un corpus d�articles scientifiques.
- (2004). The expression of "results" in scientific discourse - a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary analysis.
- (2004). MOI et AUTRUI dans le discours scientifique.
- (2004). KIAP-korpuset: Om utvikling og bruk av et flerspråklig og flerdisiplinært korpus av vitenskapelige artikler.
- (2004). Individual linguistic variation and possibilities for academic self-hood.
- (2003). Traces of others in research articles: the citation cluster.
- (2001). A propos de QUANT À et EN CE QUI CONCERNE.
- (2000). Språklig og litterær polyfoni - en tverrvitenskapelig tilnærming.
- (2000). La dimension énonciative dans les typologies textuelles.
- (2000). De la phrase au texte : un pas en arrière ou une perspective prometteuse pour la linguistique textuelle ?
- (2000). De la phrase au texte : un pas en arrière ou une perspective prometteuse pour la linguistique textuelle ?
- (2000). 1. La structuration informative - de la phrase au texte, 2. La polyphonie linguistique - introduction et applications, 3. Le résumé d'articles scientifiques - aspects énonciatifs.
- (1999). Theme Markers in French.
- (1999). Setningstema og teksttema (eksempler fra fransk).
- (1998). Linguistic polyphony - an introduction and some applications.
- (1998). Le discours rapporté dans l'éditorial.
- (1997). The Editorial - a heterogeneous genre.
- (1997). QUANT À - thématisateur et focalisateur.
- (1997). Lingvistisk polyfoni.
- (1997). Cohérence textuelle et polyphonie.
- (2017). The role of language in the climate change debate. Routledge.
- (2013). Speaking of Europe. Approaches to complexity in European political discourse. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- (2010). Quo Vadis, Europe? Vydavatelstvo Ekonom.
- (2007). Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- (2003). Academic discourse. Multidisciplinary approaches. Novus Forlag.
- (2000). Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Festskrift til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen 1. desember 2000. Nova Science Publishers.
- (2000). Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Festskrift til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen 1. desember 2000. Nova Science Publishers.
- (2000). Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Nova Science Publishers.
- (2000). Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Novus Forlag.
- (2000). Manuskriptsamling til felles avhandlingsseminar for språk og litteratur. Det historisk-filosofiske fakultet. Universitetet i Bergen. Universitetet i Bergen.
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Selected publications
BOOKS
Fløttum, K. (Ed.) 2017. The role of language in the climate change debate. New York/ London: Routledge.
Fløttum, K. (Ed.) 2013. SPEAKING OF EUROPE. Approaches to complexity in European political discours. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Fløttum, K., Jonasson, K., Norén, C. 2007. ON – pronom à facettes. Bruxelles: Duculot-De Boeck.
- Fløttum, K. (Ed.). 2007. Language and discipline perspectives on academic discourse. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Fløttum, K., T. Dahl & T. Kinn. 2006. Academic Voices – across languages and disciplines. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.
- Nølke, H., Fløttum, K. & C. Norén. 2004. ScaPoLine. La théorie scandinave de la polyphonie linguistique. Paris: Kimé.
- Fløttum, K. & F. Rastier (Eds.). 2003. Academic discourse. Multidisciplinary approaches. Oslo: Novus.
- Andersen, Ø., Fløttum, K. & T. Kinn (red.). 2000. Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Oslo: Novus.
- Fløttum, K. 1990. La nature du résumé scolaire. Analyse formelle et informative. Oslo/Paris: Solum Forlag/Didier Erudition.
PAPERS (selection)
Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Scheurer, J. 2024. ‘Trying (hard), but it’s difficult’: Youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective. In: Svendsen, B. A., Jonsson, R. (Eds), The Routledge Handbook on Language & Youth Culture. London and New York, Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-and-Youth-Culture/Svendsen-Jonsson/p/book/9780367764142
Elgesem, D., Knudsen, E., Fløttum, K. 2024. The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism. Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2299463
-Gjerstad, Ø., Fløttum, K. 2022. From Descriptive to Normative Climate Change Narratives: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. Oxford University Press: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.857.
- Andersen, I., Fløttum, K. 2022. “Adults who fail the next generations and children who refuse to give up”: The story about climate change as a battle between the generations. In: Höllein, D. & Wieders-Lohéac, A. Fridays for Future Überblick und Geschichte / Fridays for Future Overview and history. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. Germany: Tübingen.
-Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Scheurer, J. (forthcoming 2022) ‘Trying (hard), but it’s difficult’: Youth voices on lifestyle matters in a climate perspective. In: Svendsen, B. A., Jonsson, R. (Eds), Routledge Handbook on Language & Youth Culture.
-Fløttum, K., Dankel, D.J., Skiple, J.K. 2022. The Sustainable Development Goals — Sensible Initiative or Just Nonsense? An Investigation of Norwegian Citizens’ Knowledge and Attitudes. Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 4305; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074305.
-Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø., Badiang Oloko, F. 2022. De la polyphonie linguistique à la polyphonie discursive : un chemin à trois étapes. Cahiers de praxématique, 76, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/praxematique.7413.
-Gjerstad, Ø., Fløttum, K. 2021. Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse. European Policy Analysis 2021;7(Suppl. 2):386–404. DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1122.
-Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø., Skiple, J.K. 2021. Climate change and lifestyle: people’s expressed motivations to adopt or not adopt a climate-friendly way of life. ASp 2021 (79), 75-94.
-Andersen, G., Fløttum, K., Carbou, G., Gjesdal, A.M. 2021. People’s Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change. Environmental Values. DOI: 10.3197/096327121X16328186623850.
-Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø., Gjesdal, A.M. 2021. Natur og menneske i et språklig klimaperspektiv. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa), 12(1), 39-60.
- Fløttum, K. 2020. Le changement climatique en discours. Cahiers de praxématique 73
- Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø., Badiang Oloko, F. 2020. Les voix dans le discours climatique : essai d’une combinaison de la polyphonie avec l’analyse de contenu, l’analyse narrative et l’analyse rhétorique. Cahiers de praxématique 73.
- Falck, R.L., Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2020. Expressing one’s conceptions of lifestyle in a climate perspective. Cahiers de praxématique 73.
- Bremer, Scott; Johnson, Eleanor; Fløttum, Kjersti; Kverndokk, Kyrre; Wardekker, Arjan; Krauss, Werner. 2020. Portrait of a climate city: How climate change is emerging as a risk in Bergen, Norway. Climate Risk Management 2020 (29)
- Dahl, T., Fløttum, K. 2020. Climate change from a corporate perspective: a case study of the linguistic representation of the energy transition by the fossil fuel companies Total and Equinor. Cahiers de praxématique 73.
- Tvinnereim, E., Lægreid, O. M., Fløttum, K. 2020. Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum. Energy Research & Social Science 2020, 62:101357, 1-10.
- Dahl, T., Fløttum, K. 2019. Climate change as a corporate strategy issue. A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 24(3) 499-514. DOI 10.1108/CCIJ-08-2018-0088
- Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø., Gjesdal, A.M. 2019. Avenir et climat : représentations de l’avenir dans des blogs francophones portant sur le changement climatique. MOTS. Les langages du politique, 119, 33-50.
- Fløttum, K. 2018. Quelles conceptions du « changement climatique » en France et en Norvège ? Résultats de deux enquêtes. SHS Web of Conferences 46, 01010 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184601010
- Fløttum, K. 2017. Les voix des jeunes sur le climat, l’environnement et l’énergie. Le discours et la langue 8(2), 13-26.
Tvinnereim, E., Fløttum K., Gjerstad, Ø., Johannesson, M.P., Nordø, Å. D. 2017. Citizens' preferences for tackling climate change. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of their freely formulated solutions. Global Environmental Change, 46, 34-41. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.06.005.
Fløttum, K. 2017. Language and climate change. In: Fløttum, K. (Ed.) The role of language in the climate change debate. New York/London: Routledge, 1-10.
Fløttum, K. 2017. Willingness of action. In: Fløttum, K. (Ed.) The role of language in the climate change debate. New York/London: Routledge, 113-129.
Fløttum, K., Drange, H. 2017. The Paris COP21 agreement – obligations for 195 countries. In: Fløttum, K. (Ed.) The role of language in the climate change debate. New York/London: Routledge, 130-148.
Jones, M. D., Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2017. Stories about climate change: The influence of language on Norwegian public opinion. In: Fløttum, K. (Ed.) The role of language in the climate change debate. New York/London: Routledge, 49-68.
Fløttum, K. 2017. Fra usynlig til synlig samfunnsrelevans: Noen eksempler og forslag til tiltak. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 34(1), 58-64.
Fløttum, K. 2016. Linguistic Analysis Approaches for Assessing Climate Change Communication. In: Climate Science: Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.488.Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2016. Narratives in climate change discourse. WIREs Climate Change 2017, 8:e429. doi: 10.1002/wcc.429
Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Rivenes, V. 2016. Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: Findings from a climate concerned and oil rich nation. Journal of Youth Studies, 19 (8), 1128-1143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2016.1145633
Fløttum, K., Gasper, D., StClair, Asun Lera. 2016. Synthesizing a Policy-Relevant Perspective from the Three IPCC “Worlds” – a comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report. Global Environmental Change (38), 118-129. Doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.03.007
- Tvinnereim, E., Fløttum, K. 2015.Explaining topic prevalence in answers to open-ended survey questions about climate change. Nature Climate Change. 5, 744-747. DOI 10.1038/nclimate2663.
- Fløttum, K. 2015. Perspectives linguistiques et discursives sur la circulation du discours portant sur le changement climatique. Cahiers de praxématique 2015 (63). DOI : 10.4000/praxematique.2387
- Fløttum, K., Espeland, T. J. 2014. Norske klimanarrativer – hvor mange “fortellinger”? En lingvistisk og diskursiv analyse av to norske stortingsmeldinger. SAKPROSA 6(4), 1-18.
Fløttum, K., Dahl, T. 2014. IPCC communicative practices: A linguistic comparison of the Summary for Policymakers 2007 and 2013. The LSP Journal - Language for special purposes, professional communication, knowledge management and cognition 5(2), 66-83.
Fløttum, K. 2014. La narrativisation, trait unificateur des genres du discours climatique ? In: Michèle Monte & Gilles Philippe (Eds), Genres & textes. Déterminations, évolutions, confrontations. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 239-252.
Fløttum, K. 2014. La circulation de voix dans le débat sur le changement climatique : reportages de la COP 17 dans la presse française. In: Sullet-Nylander, F. et al. Discours rapporté, genre(s) et médias. Stockholm: Romanica Stockholmiensia, ISBN 978-91-87355-18-9, 91-104.
Fløttum, K., Ly, A. (2014). Le sommet sur le changement climatique de Copenhague en 2009 et les espérances brisées au Parlement européen. In: INTERPRETER L'EVENEMENT. Aspects linguistiques, discursifs et sociétaux. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas 2014 ISBN 978-2-35935-108-8. s. 155-163.
Fløttum, K., Gjesdal, A.M., Gjerstad, Ø., Koteyko, N., & Salway, A. (2014). Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change. Global Environmental Change, 29, 213-222.
Dahl, T., Fløttum, K.. 2014. A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate. Text & Talk 34 (4), 401-420.
Fløttum, K., Norén, C. 2013. "Je vous cite une dernière fois, Monsieur le Président...". Emploi polyphonique des termes d'adresse dans le débat parlementaire. Cahiers de praxématique, 57-2011, 117-131. Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée.
ISBN 978-2-36781-029-4
Fløttum, K. 2013. Speaking of and within the EU. In: Fløttum, K. (ed.), Speaking of Europe. Approaches to complexity in European political discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1-18
Fløttum, K. 2013. Représentation linguistique d'incertitude dans le discours du changement climatique. In: Norén, C., Jonasson, K., Nølke, H., Svensson, M. (eds.), Modalité, évidentialité et autres friandises langagières. Bern: Peter Lang, 135-150.
Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Didriksen, A. A., Gjesdal, A. M. 2013. KIAP – reflections on a complex corpus. Bergen Language and Linguistic Studies, 137-150
Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2013. The Role of social justice and poverty in South Africa’s National climate change response white paper. In: South African Journal on Human Rights, 1, 61-90.
Fløttum, K. 2013.Narratives in Reports about Climate Change. In: Gotti, Maurizio; Guinda, Carmen Sancho (eds.), Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, p. 277-292
Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2013. Arguing for climate policy through the linguistic construction of Narratives and voices: the case of the South-African green paper “National Climate Change Response”. Climatic Change 118 (2), 417-430. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0654-7.
Fløttum, K. 2012. Voix scientifiques dans le débat politique sur le changement climatique. Actes du XVIIIe congrès des romanistes scandinaves/Actas del XVIII congreso de romanistas escandinavos, Romanica Gothoburgensia, http://hdl.handle.net/2077/30607
- Fløttum, K. 2012. Variation of stance and voice across cultures. In: Hyland, K. ; Guinda, C. S. (eds), Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 218-231
- Fløttum, K., Dahl, T. 2012 Different contexts, different "stories"? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change. Language & Communication 32, 14-23.
- Fløttum, K. Linguistic and discursive perspectives on climate change knowledge. Planet Under Pressure; London, 2012-03-26 - 2012-03-29
- Fløttum, K., Dahl, T. 2011. Climate change discourse: scientific claims in a policy setting, Fachsprache 3-4, 205-219.
- Dahl, Trine; Fløttum, Kjersti. 2011. Wrong or Just Different? How Existing Knowledge Is Staged to promote New Claims in English Economics and Linguistics Articles. In: Salager-Meyer, Francoise; Lewin, Beverly A. (Eds.), Crossed Words: Criticism in Scholarly Writing. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, s. 257-282
- Fløttum, K. 2010. A linguistic and discursive view on climate change discourse. Asp-Revue du GERAS, 58, 19-37.
- Fløttum, K. 2010. EU discourse: Polyphony and unclearness. Journal of Pragmatics 2010, 42(4),990-999
Fløttum, K. 2010. Une perspective comparative de langue et de discipline sur les écrits scientifiques: standardisation versus diversification. In: Defays, Jean-Marc; Englebert, Annick (Eds), Principes et typologie des discours universitaires, Tome 1. Paris: L’Harmattan, 49-57.
Fløttum, K.; Gjerstad, Ø. 2010. Diversité de voix dans le discours politique de l'Union européenne. In: Colas-Blaise, Marion; Kara, Mohammed; Perrin, Laurent; Petitjean, André (Eds), La question polyphonique ou dialogique en sciences du langage. : Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, 321-338.
Fløttum, K. 2010. Linguistically marked cultural identity in research articles. In: Garzone, Giuliana; Archibald, James (Eds) Discourse, Identities and Roles in Specialized Communication. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 267-280.
Fløttum, K.; Vold, Eva Thue; 2010. L'éthos auto-attribué d'auteurs-doctorants dans le discours scientifique. LIDIL (Linguistique appliquée et didactique des langues), 41, 41-58.
- Fløttum, Kjersti; Stenvoll, Dag 2009. Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective: NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe. Journal of Language and Politics, 8(2), 269-286.
- Fløttum, K. 2008. Profil d'un auteur scientifique coopératif. In Birkelund, Hansen, Norén: L'énonciation dans tous ses états. Bern: Peter Lang, 277-290.
- Fløttum, K., Halvorsen, T., Myklebust, J. P., Nyhagen, A. 2008. Internationalising the PhD: a case Study from the University of Bergen.
In: Internationalisation of European Higher Education. An EUA/ACA Handbook. Berlin: Raabe academic publishers, Part D, 1-24. Fløttum, K. 2007. Traces of others in research articles: The citation cluster. In Ahmad, Khurshid and Rogers, Margaret (Eds), Evidence-based LSP. Translation, Text, and Terminology. Bern: Peter Lang, 211-227.
Fløttum, K., Dahl, T., Kinn, T., Gjesdal, A. M., Vold, E. T. 2007. Cultural Identities and Academic Voices. In Fløttum, Kjersti (Ed), Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 14-39.
- Fløttum, K. 2006. En språklig analyse av norsk medisinsk prosa. Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening, 126 (1), 65-68.
- Fløttum, K. 2005. The self and the others – polyphonic visibility in research articles. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15 (1), 29 –44.
- Fløttum, K. 2005. MOI et AUTRUI dans le discours scientifique : l’exemple de la négation NE...PAS. In : J. Bres, P.P. Haillet, S. Mellet, H. Nølke, L. Rosier (éds.), Dialogisme, polyphonie: approches linguistiques. Bruxelles: De Boeck-Duculot, 323-337.
- Fløttum, K. 2004. Ilots textuels dans Le temps retrouvé de Marcel Proust”. In: J. M. Lopez-Munoz, S. Marnette & L. Rosier (eds.), Le discours rapporté dans tous ses états. Paris: L'Harmattan, 121–130.
- Fløttum, K. 2003. A propos de QUANT À et EN CE QUI CONCERNE. In : B. Combettes, C. Schnedecker, & A. Theissen (éds), Ordre et distinction dans la langue et le discours. Paris: Champion, 185–202.
- 2020-2023: Living with climate change: motivation and action for lifestyle change (CLIMLIFE), cross-disciplinary project, funded by RCN, head of project, with Dag Elgesem, Endre Tvinnereim, Helge Drange, Øyvind Gjerstad (UiB) and Trine Dahl (NHH). https://www.uib.no/en/rg/lingclim/139228/climlife
- 2020-2023: 2O2CM-project: Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives to Climate Change Mitigation: A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences. Funded by The Joint Programming Initiative “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe” (JPI Climate), including Research Council of Norway. Co-head with Øyvind Gjerstad of Norwegian part; collaboration with Belgian and French partners. https://change4climate.eu/
2018-2021 Changing Nature: A lexical and argumentative analysis of public debates on nature, mentor of project, headed by Ass. Professor Anje Müller Gjesdal, collaboration with Université de Bordaux for comparison Norway-France, financed by SAMKUL/Research Council of Norway
2018-2022 COST project CA 17132: “European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis” (APPLY), member of Mangament Committee Norway, financed by Horizon2020
- 2016-2018 Pathways to energy transition, University of Bergen (“Akademiaavtalen”), cross-disciplinary, head of WP2 “Norwegians’ conception of energy and energy transition”
- 2013-2016/17 LINGCLIM project
https://www.uib.no/en/project/lingclim
LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE DISCOURSE AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE INTERPRETATIONS
(Financed by SAMKUL-programme, Research Council of Norway)Head of project: Professor Kjersti Fløttum, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen (UiB)
Project members: Professor Trine Dahl, Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Professor Gisela Böhm, Department of Psychosocial Science, UiB, Professor Helge Drange, Geophysical Institute, UiB/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Associate Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Department of Comparative Politics, UiB, Professor/Deputy Director Marianne Ryghaug, Department of interdisciplinary studies of culture/Center for Sustainable Energy Studies (CenSES), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Collaboration with Uni Computing (Uni Research).Summary
Climate change has in recent years moved from being mainly a physical phenomenon to being simultaneously a social, cultural and political phenomenon. At present, both individual and collective attitudes and behaviour seem an equally serious challenge in the climate issue as scientific knowledge of the phenomenon itself, and in this, language and communication are crucial. Language not only reflects and expresses, but also influences attitudes and behaviour, and thus constitutes a vital component of the cultural prerequisites underlying societal development. The overarching question of LINGCLIM is to what extent and in what way language matters in climate change interpretations.The primary objectives are to
We investigate to what extent instances of climate discourse may be described through a narrative structure with up to five components and a number of potential actors (victims, villains, heroes).
(1) generate new and integrated knowledge about the role of language in climate discourse through developing an innovative multidisciplinary methodology including an opinion survey and a psychological experiment in addition to comprehensive linguistic and discursive analyses;
(2) investigate climate discourse in a micro-analysis focusing on specific linguistic features, and in a macro-analysis based on contextual factors established through the multidisciplinary approach;
(3) explore the role of the perspectives of ”gloom-and-doom” vs. ”opportunities-in-a new-sustainable-society”.
Three major challenges to be handled are to
(1) identify relevant contextual factors to be integrated in the analysis to understand the role of the components and actors in the narrative structure;
(2) identify explicit and hidden voices in climate discourse as well as identify what actors they represent;
(3) unveil the relationship between linguistic representations and psychological factors such as people’s attitudes, beliefs and responses to climate change.
2012: Different voices, different stories? Perspectives on language use in climate change text and talk (SAMKUL, Research Council of Norway)
2009–12 CLIMATE NARRATIVES. Interdisciplinary project on ”Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor: Scientific Knowledge, International Political Discourse, and Local Voices” (NORGLOBAL; Research Council of Norway)
2008–2012 EURLING - Understanding linguistic complexity in political discourse: interdisciplinary analyses of texts on European integration (head of project)
2005–2008: EURUN - Common European versus national/regional political discourse.
Interdisciplinary comparative analyses of texts on European integration (head of project).
2001– 2006: KIAP - Cultural Identity in Academic Prose (in Norwegian: Kulturell Identitet i Akademisk Prosa), (head of project, Research Council of Norway)
1999–2003: Linguistic and literary polyphony (Nordic project, NOS-H)
1993–96: French reformulation (individual project)
1992 – 1993: A linguistic and textlinguistic study of the «Chairman's Statement» in English, French and German Annual Reports (head of project)
Member of Academia Europaea, 2018
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2017
Award for excellent research dissemination, University of Bergen, Faculty of Humanities, 2016
Honorary doctor, Doctor Honoris Causa, Uppsala University 2014
Education
Scholarship at the University of Paris III, 1977–78.
Cand. philol./Master of Arts (French linguistics), University of Bergen 1979.
Dr.art. (French (text)linguistics), University of Trondheim 1989. Doctoral thesis: La nature du résumé scolaire. Analyse formelle et informative. (Oslo/Paris 1990)
AFF's course of management for women in academic positions, 1999.
Professional experience
1982–89: Research assistant and Research fellow (The Research Council of Norway), University of Trondheim.
1989–95: Associate professor (French linguistics), Stavanger college.
1996–: Professor (French linguistics), University of Bergen.
Guest researcher at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (EHESS), Paris (automne 1987), Université de Picardie – Jules Verne, Amiens (automne 2000), Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (spring 2010).
Selected functions and offices (see CV)
- Chair of the board of the Holberg Prize, 2020-2024.
- Appointed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters as member of the Science Advice Committee, 2022-2024.
- Appointed by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in Brussels as Thinker in the "Thinker's Cycle: The Language of Debate and Communication on Climate Change", 2021.
- Member of the University Board, University of Bergen, 2013-2017, reelected 2017-2021.
- External member of the board of the Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2013-2017, reappointed 2017-2021; chair of the board 2020-2021.
- Honorary Vice-consul for France in Bergen, 2010-2020.
- Deputy chair of the board, Centre franco-norvégien en sciences sociales et humaines, Paris, 2011-2014
- Member of the Rafto Prize Committtee 2009–2016.
- Member of the mentor program of Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), 2011-2012.
- Head of Bergen Summer Research School–Global development Challenges, BSRS 2008–2011. Member of scientific committe, BSRS, 2011-present
- Member 2007-2018 and head 2009-2010 of Resource Group – International, Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Member of international panel for evaluating European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committees, 2009–2010.
- Deputy member of Board of Sciences, Research Council of Norway, 2007–2011.
- Vice-rector for international relations, University of Bergen, 2005–2009.
- Member of international panel for evaluation of linguistic research, Uppsala University, May 2007
- Head of jury, Young Professional Company Award, ONS, 2006
- Head (preses) of the Society for the Advancement of the sciences and the humanities, Bergen, 2005.
- Head of PhD research school in linguistics and philology, University of Bergen, 2004–2008
- Head of National PhD research school in linguistics and philology, 2006–2007
- Member of the Committee for the Humanities, Division for Sciences, The Research Council of Norway 2004–2005.
- Deputy chairman of the board: UNIFOB AS 2003–2006 (Research organisation).
- Deputy chairman of the board: Stiftelsen UNIFOB 2002–2003
- Member of the Committee for the Humanities, The Research Council of Norway 2001–2003.
- Norway's member of the Board, NOS-H (Nordic research cooperation in the humanities) 2001–2003.
- Head of the Department of Romance Studies, University of Bergen, 1999–2001.
- Member of the Board, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen, 1999–2001.
Member of Editorial board of the journals Langages (France), Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique (France), Recherches en rédaction professionnelle (Canada), Scolia (France), LSP & Professional Communication (Denmark), Studii de lingvistica(Romania), Arena Romanistica (Norway), Sakprosa (Norway).
Supervising (master and ph.d)
French linguistics (semantics and pragmatics), general text linguistics, text/discourse analysis, academic discourse, political discourse, genre theory, text typology, summarizing, linguistic polyphony.
Guest lecturer
In Norway: Universities of Agder, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim (NTNU) and Tromsø, Oslo University College, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH).
Abroad: Amiens, Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Caen, Genève, Grenoble, Metz, Lund, Lyon, Montpellier, Montreal, Nanjing, Nice, Orléans, Paris, Poznan, Seattle, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Taipei, Tel-Aviv, Turku, Uppsala, Västerås, Washington D.C., Århus.