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LINGCLIM: Language, climate and lifestyle

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The members of the interdisciplinary research group have backgrounds from various disciplines: linguistics, media and information science, rhetoric, literary studies, political science, philosophy, geophysics and climate.

LINGCLIM group September 2023
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Private. LINGCLIM group, September 2023.

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Members

  • Øyvind Gjerstad, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages (leader) 
  • Kjersti Fløttum, Professor emerita at the Department of Foreign Languages 
  • Helge Drange, Professor at Geophysical Institute
  • Dag Elgesem, Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies
  • Trine Dahl, Professor at NHH Norwegian School of Economics 
  • Emil Perron, PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages 
    Project title: « Un écohumanisme pour l'Anthropocène : Une enquête du XXIe siècle sur la notion de « nature » dans les Essais de Michel de Montaigne »
  • Anne-Kate Ellingsen, PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages 
    Project title: "Retoriske strategier i debatten om atomenergi i Frankrike"
  • Runa Falck Langaas, PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages  
    Project title: "Fra fest i Kyoto og Paris til hverdag i Norge - en flermetodisk tilnærming til hvorfor nordmenn (ikke) tar hensyn til kunnskap om klimaendringer i valg av levemåte"
  • Solveig Lygren, PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages
    Project title: "Climate change narratives in contemporary literature"
  • Johanna Gunn, PhD Candidate at the Department of Foreign Languages.
    Project title: " La gestion des références dans le discours climatique – une étude de l'article scientifique, de la communication politique et de la presse écrite " 

Guest researchers

Previous members and affiliates