Table 3 Nomination strategy.

From: Representing the other: a critical discourse analysis of British media coverage of China’s role in climate change

Entities

Categorization

Example

Social actors

Proper nouns

Will Steffen, John Kerry, Xi, Trump

Personal deixis

We, They, He, She

Political deixis

Administration, Officials, Chinese Communist Party, Green Party

Ideological deixis

Marxist, Socialist

Collective/individual deixis

Developing Countries, Experts, People, Leader

Place deixis

Zhengzhou, Beijing

Objects/phenomena/events

Concrete

Rainfall, Electricity

Abstract

Policy, Relationship, Nature, Ambition

Processes/actions

Material

Cooperation, Rise, Commitment

Relational

Emitter, Producer

Verbal

Debate, Announcement