Abstract：Climate change, driven by both human activities and natural factors and characterized by global warming, is the most urgent common challenge facing human society. Over the past three decades, the research on “climate change” and “climate change-related language issues” has witnessed rapid growth, emerging as an interdisciplinary research area. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive review of the international research literature on “climate change-related language issues”. Five major research topics have been identified, namely, climate change and language migration and loss, language accessibility, discoursive power and construction of discourse representation, vocabulary issues and speech therapy. Findings show that research on these topics exhibits four main characteristics. Namely, 1) The multidisciplinary nature of climate change research determines the multidisciplinary nature of climate change-related language issues; 2) While climate change-related language issues have global commonality shared by all human beings on one hand and these studies also have national/regional disparity on the other hand; 3) Climate justice has been at the core of climate change-related language issues; 4) It has been the climate change controversies that formulate the research topics of climate change-related language issues. In conclusion, this paper suggests that whereas China actively participates in global climate governance, the Chinese linguistic community should focus on and actively engage in the research of climate change-related language issues, thereby enhancing the influence of linguistics in the realm of climate change research.
许小颖，王春辉. 气候变化相关语言问题国际研究述评[J]. 语言战略研究, 2024, 9(2): 77-88.
Xu Xiaoying and Wang Chunhui. Review of International Literature on Language Issues Related to Climate Change. , 2024, 9(2): 77-88.
