The ecolinguistics reader : language, ecology, and environment / / edited by Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler

• Pubblicazione: London, UK ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2001]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Ecolinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FillAlwin; MühlhäuslerPeter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 THE ROOTS OF ECOLINGUISTICS; Language and Environment; Language and Gnosis; Talking about Environmental Issues; Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998; PART 2 ECOLOGY AS METAPHOR; THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE(S); The Ecology of Language; The Ecology of Language Shift; A Linguistic Ecology for Europe?; ECOSYSTEMS: LANGUAGE WORLD SYSTEMS AND OTHER METAPHORS; Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, Language and Politics; Economy and Ecology in Language ; The Sociohistorical Dynamics of Language and Cognition: The Emergence of the Metaphor Model ''Money Is Water'' in the Nineteenth CenturyPART 3 LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT; LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; Language and the Natural Environment; Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis; ''The Mountain'' and ''The Project'': Dueling Depictions of a Natural Environment; Environmental Matters and Communication Challenges; A Note on the Linguistics of Environmentalism; LINGUISTIC AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; Babel Revisited ; The Ecology of Language: Link between Rainfall and Language DiversityLinguistic Diversity in Melanesia: A Tentative Explanation; PART 4 CRITICAL ECOLINGUISTICS; ECOCRITICISM OF THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM; New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics; Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphors We Die; What Makes a Grammar Green? A Reply to Goatly; A Response to Schleppegrell: What Makes a Grammar Green?; Language and Ecological Crisis: Extracts from a Dictionary of Industrial Agriculture; ECOCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS ; The Passive Voice of Science: Language Abuse in the Wildlife ProfessionConstructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990; The Rape of Mother Nature? Women in the Language of Environmental Discourse; Ecological Criticism of Language; Bibliography: Language and Ecology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, combined language with ecology. For Haugen, ''the ecology of language'' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volu
• Titolo autorizzato: The ecolinguistics reader
• ISBN: 0-8264-2075-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464641403321
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