Language, Ecology and Society

Jorgen Christian Bang is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Jorgen Door is Associated Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Sune Vork Steffensen is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Joshua Nash works as a freelance environmentalist and indologist

Section I. Introducing Dialectical Linguistics; 1. Language, Ecology and Society: An Introduction to Dialectical Linguistics; 2. Language, Linguistics and Social Praxis; 3. The Logos of Language: Logics and Dialogue; 4. The Topos of Language: Core Contradictions; Section II. Deixis and Dialectical Text Analysis; 5. Deixis, Text and Context: Why Analyze Deixis?; 6. Deixis, Lexis and Anaphora; 7. Life Form, Text and Dialogue; 8. Text Analysis and Core Contradictions: Fay Weldon's Puffball; 9. The Dialectics of Deixis: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Preface; Section III. Dialectics, Ecology and Ecolinguistics; 10. Dialectical Ecology; 11. The Ecology of Communication; 12. Similarities and Differences in Ecolinguistics.