Corporate Environmental Reporting

6 Prevalent Discursive Mechanisms

Introduction

By repeating certain discursive mechanisms, discourse actively perpetuates particular hegemonic ideals (Alexander, 2009; Davison, 2014; Spence, 2009). In this chapter, the environmental reports and interviews will undergo a second layer of analysis, in which the discourse of corporate environmental reporting is examined through the lens of western environmental philosophy. To highlight the ways in which the reporting process communicates these philosophies, some of the more prevalent discursive motifs – and the mechanisms with which they are communicated – will be considered and discussed. How these motifs relate to the philosophical themes used in this book will also be examined. After the ...