Ecolinguistics Reader : Language, Ecology and Environment

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Pub. Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher(s): Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Summary

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen 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. Sin

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(12)
Part 1 The Roots of Ecolinguistics
Language and Environment
13(11)
Edward Sapir
Language and Gnosis
24(7)
George Steiner
Talking about Environmental Issues
31(12)
Peter Muhlhausler
Ecolinguistics: State of the Art
43(14)
Part 2 Ecology as Metaphor
The Ecology of Language(s)
The Ecology of Language
57(10)
Einar Haugen
The Ecology of Language Shift
67(8)
William F. Mackey
A Linguistic Ecology for Europe?
75(9)
Norman Denison
Ecosystems: Language World Systems and Other Metaphors
Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, Language and Politics
84(7)
Peter Finke
Economy and Ecology in Language
91(10)
Harald Weinrich
The Sociohistorical Dynamics of Language and Cognition: The Emergence of the Metaphor Model `Money Is Water' in the Nineteenth Century
101(8)
Wolf-Andreas Liebert
Part 3 Language and Environment
Language and Environmental Problems
Language and the Natural Environment
109(6)
Beth Schultz
Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental
115(9)
Crisis Saroj Chawla
`The Mountain' and `The Project': Dueling Depictions of a Natural Environment
124(19)
Donal Carbaugh
Environmental Matters and Communication Challenges
143(11)
Robyn Penman
A Note on the Linguistics of Environmentalism
154(5)
Roy Harris
Linguistic and Biological Diversity
Babel Revisited
159(6)
Peter Muhlhausler
The Ecology of Language: Link between Rainfall and Language Diversity
165(2)
Josie Glausiusz
Linguistic Diversity in Melanesia: A Tentative Explanation
167(8)
D.C. Laycock
Part 4 Critical Ecolinguistics
Ecocriticism of the Language System
New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics
175(28)
M.A.K. Halliday
Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphors We Die By
203(23)
Andrew Goatly
What Makes a Grammar Green? A Reply to Goatly
226(3)
Mary J. Schleppegrell
A Response to Schleppegrell: What Makes a Grammar Green?
229(3)
Andrew Goatly
Language and Ecological Crisis: Extracts from a Dictionary of Industrial Agriculture
232(9)
Wilhelm Trampe
Ecocritical Discourse Analysis and Language Awareness
The Passive Voice of Science: Language Abuse in the Wildlife Profession
241(4)
Mary Kahn
Constructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990
245(13)
Michael Howlett
Rebecca Raglon
The Rape of Mother Nature? Women in the Language of Environmental Discourse
258(12)
Tzeporah Berman
Ecological Criticism of Language
270(16)
Matthias Jung
Bibliography: Language and Ecology 286(5)
Index 291

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