Ecolinguistics Reader Language, Ecology and Environment

by Fill, Alwin; Mühlhäusler, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780826481733
• ISBN10: 0826481736
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 mu

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Roots of Ecolinguistics1. Language and Environment - Edward Sapir2. Language and Gnosis - George Steiner3. Talking about Environmental Issues - Peter Muhlhausler4. Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998 - Alwin FillPart II: Ecology as MetaphorThe Ecology of Language(s)5. The Ecology of Language - Einar Haugen6. The Ecology of Language Shift - William F. Mackey7. A Linguistic Ecology for Europe? - Norman DenisonEcosystems: Language World Systems and Other Metaphors8. Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, Language and Politics - Peter Finke9. Economy and Ecology in Language - Harald Weinrich10. The Sociohistorical Dynamics of Language and Cognition - Wolf-Andreas LiebertPart III: Language and EnvironmentLanguage and Environmental Problems11. Language and the Natural Environment - Beth Schulz12. Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis - Saroj Chawla13. 'The Mountain' and 'The Project': Dueling Depictions of a Natural Environment - Donal Carbaugh14. Environmental Matters and Communication Challenges - Robyn Penman15. A Note on the Linguistics of Environmentalism - Roy HarrisLinguistic and Biological Diversity16. Babel Revisited - Peter Muhlhausler17. The Ecology of Language: Link Between Rainfall and Language Diversity - Josie Glausiusz18. Linguistic Diversity in Melanesia: A Tentative Explanation - D. C. LaycockPart IV: Critical EcolinguisticsEcocriticism of the Language System19. New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics - M A K Halliday20. Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphor we Die By - Andrew Goatley21. Language and Ecological Crisis: Extracts from a Dictionary of Industrial Agriculture - Wilhelm TrampeEcocritical Discourse Analysis and Language Awareness22. The Passive Voice of Science: Language Abuse in the Wildlife Profession23. Constructing the Environmental Spectacle - Michael Howlett and Rebecca Raglon24. The Rape of Mother Nature? Women in the Language of Environmental Discourse - Tzeporah Berman25. Ecological Criticam of Language - Matthias Jung