Pauline Bureau

Pauline Bureau holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Grenoble Alpes University (France). Her research focuses on discourses about climate change, particularly on terminological variations and neologisms. She is convinced that observing the words introduced to address ecological disruptions can reveal much about our relationship to these challenges and may even help us identify paradigmatic changes in their infancy!

During her stay at Stanford as a visiting scholar, she will study discourses on one set of responses to climate change, namely post-growth strategies, understood as initiatives that seek to reduce consumption and production in order to minimize environmental impact and enhance well-being.