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Kjersti Fløttum

Kjersti Fløttum

Position

Emerita, Professor

Affiliation

E-mail
kjersti.flottum@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55582282
+47 95208342
Visitor address
Sydnesplassen 7
5007 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Kjersti Fløttum

Position

Emerita, Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Research

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: Kjersti Fløttum | UiB
Linkedin: kjersti.flottum

 

Outreach

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) 

-2025: Fløttum, K. People’s motivation for climate action and preferences for language use. Keynote at the 40th International Laud Symposium, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU in Landau, Germany), 25.08.2025.

-2025: Fløttum, K. Narratives, voices and language in climate discourse. Keynote at the Royal Irish Academy's conference: Climate change: what can the arts and humanities do? Dublin, 27.05.2025.

-2025: Fløttum,K. Climate communication: people’s attitudes, motivation for action and language preferences, Opening talk at the Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS), 10.06.2025

-2024: Fløttum, K. Changement climatique, récits et langage. Keynote at Congrès des romanistes scandinaves ROM24, Turku, 21–24.08.2024.

-2024: Fløttum, K. & Dahl, T. Citizens’ preferences for motivating language and argumentation on lifestyle issues in a climate context. Digital conference at Jyväskylä University, 16.01.2024.

-2023: Fløttum, K. Climate change, stories and language. Lecture at University of Lausanne, 30.11.2023.

-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., Munthe-Kaas, H., Perron, E. 2025.  “The Future in Our Hands? The Climate Fight from an Aging Perspective”, Panel Discussion at the Generation Festival, Bergen, 23.05.2025

-Fløttum, K. 2024. Samtalepartner i programposten «Stammespråk og klimabrøl» på konferansen VarmereVåtereVillere i Bergen 13.-15.03.2024. (https://www.varmerevaterevillere.no/programoversikt-2024/stammesprak-og-klimabrol )

-Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2024. Klima, språkbruk, motivasjon for handling. Foredrag for klimanettverk av administrativt ansatte i Vestland fylkes kommuner; i Førde 01.03.2024 og i Bergen 13.03.2024. 

-Fløttum, Kjersti; Andersen, Ida Vikøren; Dahl, Trine; Drange, Helge; Elgesem, Dag; Gjerstad, Øyvind; Perron, Emil Julien Stautland. 2023. Living with climate change. Report from the CLIMLIFE project. October 2023. Bergen: Institutt for fremmedspråk, Universitetet i Bergen.

-Fløttum, K., Dahl, T. 2023. The climate communicator’s challenge: What words and arguments motivate citizens to lifestyle change?. ALAPP - International conference, Glasgow; 4-6.09.2023. 

-Fløttum, K. 2023. «Vi prøver, men det er krevende!» Unge stemmer om å endre levemåte i et klimaperspektiv. Foredrag ved Forskningsdagene UNG; 21.09.2023.

- Fløttum, K. 2023. «Global koking»? Kommentar, Energi og klima, 14.08.2023, https://www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-analyse/kommentar/global-koking 

- Fløttum, K. 2023. Young citizens’ opinions about and attitudes towards climate change, lifestyle and political influence - research in and outside the classroom. Lecture at the international BSRS, Bergen Summer Research School, 13.06.2023.

- Fløttum, K. 2023. Språkets rolle i klimadebatten - Science4Impact (Podcast), 24.03.2023.

- 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-til-aa-levemer-klimavennlig#_=_

-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-klimaspoersmaalet-til-en-krig-omord

-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-ikke-slipp-paa

-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-i-stor-grad-menneskeskapte/

-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-bekymret/

-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-1773309.html

-Fløttum, K., St. Clair, A. L., Drange, H. 2009. “Bergen kan bidra”. Kronikk, Bergens

Tidende 2009-07-02.http://www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/Bergen-vil-bidra-1927061.html

 

Teaching

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.

Publications
2025
2021
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2018
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2024
2012
2006
2008
2020
2014
2022
2004
2023
2013
2010
2007
2016
2019
2011
2005
1998
1999
2001
2003
1997

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

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., Skiple, J.K. 2025. People as Climate Action Motivators. A Survey-Based Study of Wording and Arguments Suggested as Motivating for Individual Climate Action. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025; 0:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12819

-Gjerstad, Ø., Catellani, A., Fløttum, K. 2025. Imagining action on climate change – a comparison of Belgian and Norwegian surveys. In: A. Catellani, L.-A.  Cougnon, Ø. Gjerstad, A. Nugier (Eds), An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change. Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ch 1, Part 1: Climate change in discourse, pp. 13-35. ISBN 9781041050087.

-Fløttum, K., Gjerstad, Ø. 2024. Le paradoxe norvégien, entre avantages climatiques et intérêts pétroliers. Hermès - Cognition, Communication, Politique. 93, 148-151.

-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, 392-406. 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 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2299463

-Fløttum, K. 2023. Rôles des citoyens dans la lutte climatique : une étude linguistique des opinions des Français sur les possibilités et les obstacles concernant l’atténuation du changement climatique. Studii de lingvistică 2023, (13) 2. https://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro/arhiva-en-13-2-2023.html

-Gjerstad, Ø., Fløttum, K. 2023. Negation and Climate Change in French Blog Posts. I: Malin Roitman (Ed.), Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press 2023 ISBN 978-91-7635-204-5. s. 27-42. https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/bcd/

-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.

-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., 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.

 

Projects
  • 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
    (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”.

    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).
    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)