Short description:

This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.

Long description:

This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.

Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity of issues, settings, and place-worlds. Empirically, the chapters meander through a universe of chimpanzees engaged in problem solving, children playing marbles, political constitutions, agricultural dictionaries, Sicilian nature reserves, children?s experiences of devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, expressions of sorrow across closed borders, and the linguistic conquest of uninhabited islands. By attending to locale, sense of place, and location across this diversity, the volume evokes new empirical, methodological, and practical horizons that allow ecolinguists to ask how people and their emplacement are affected by language and languaging, and how the effects of practices impact on, not just human lifeworlds, but also trillions of bioecologies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors

Introduction: Ecolinguistics and emplacement: Language, languaging and place

Martin Döring, Stephen J. Cowley and Sune Vork Steffensen

1.      The spatial logic of language

Edward Baggs

2.      Building ecocivilizations: Putting ecolinguistic expertise to work

Stephen J. Cowley

3.      Ecological linguistics ? On the path to a critically transformative science?

Wilhelm Trampe

4.      Ecological discourse analysis: A unified perspective

Zhang Ruijie and He Wei

5.      Priolo narratives: Evaluation and emplacement in South-East Sicily

Douglas Ponton and Anna Raimo

6.      ?I had a lamb I brought everywhere??: An ecolinguistic analysis of metaphors in children?s poems during the 2001 FMD crisis in the UK

Martin Döring

7.      Anthropocentrism and the human-animal relationship: Language problems and Solutions

Reinhard Heuberger

8.      What do they miss? An Ecolinguistic approach to everyday language practices by inhabitants of the Polish-Czech Border area

Magdalena Steciąg and Urszula Majdańska-Wachowicz

9.      Local and global discourses about managing Norfolk Island

Peter Mühlhäusle

Index