Singapore, a garden city: Authoritarian environmentalism in a developmental state

H Han - The Journal of Environment & Development, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The rapid economic development of Singapore has been attributed to its plan-rational
technocratic elite, according to the developmental state model. However, few studies have …

[图书][B] Climate change education: Knowing, doing and being

CC Hung - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Climate change is complex and there is a need to educate our future generations so that
they are able to deal with the plethora of information and views that they come into contact …

Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings

J Williams, D Wright - Critical Discourse Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates how pronouns were used by UK government speakers to allocate
responsibility to themselves and others in all 92 daily televised COVID-19 briefings that were …

Aesthetic politics and community gardens in Singapore

MJF Montefrio, XR Lee, E Lim - Urban Geography, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores the complexities of aesthetic politics in urban geographies using the
case of community gardens in Singapore. Drawing from qualitative research, our findings …

State, religion, and environmentalism: fostering social cohesion and environmental protection in Singapore

A Chan, MS Islam - Environmental Sociology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Religions are taking on an increasingly influential role in driving the environmental
movement and shaping the public policy in the world. However, little research has been …

Narrative mediatisation of the “Chinese Dream” in Chinese and American media

J Wang - Journal of Language and Politics, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
This paper examines how the political slogan of the “Chinese Dream”, coined and promoted
by China's president, Xi Jinping, was mediatised in the Chinese and the American media …

Stereotyping in representing the “Chinese Dream” in news reports by CNN and BBC

J Wang - Semiotica, 2019 - degruyter.com
This paper examines how the slogan of the “Chinese Dream” is represented in two western
news reports on the CNN and the BBC websites. They are among the first news reports …

The treatment of environmental topics in the language of politics

M Kuha - The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter, situated in critical discourse analysis and ecolinguistics, summarizes research
on how environmental issues are represented in political discourse. Research has often …

Constructing a Discourse of Hope and Inspiration: A Positive Discourse Analysis of Joko Widodo's Press Statements on COVID-19

Ernanda, M Nartey - Asian Studies Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Using positive discourse analysis as a framework, this article examines Indonesian
President Joko Widodo's press statements on the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on how …

Promoting a city's core values using evaluative language

V Ho, A Suen - International journal of applied linguistics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government launched the Brand Hong Kong
campaign in 2001 to promote Hong Kong as an Asia's world city. Among the various …