Exploring Ecolinguistics - Douglas Mark Ponton

Exploring Ecolinguistics

Ecological Principles and Narrative Practices
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-28142-4 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas. In doing so, it maps out research pathways for informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the discipline.

The book centres on two case studies. The first is a nature reserve near Siracusa in Sicily run by Fabio Cilea, where flamingos have begun to breed despite the devastation of the nearby coastline by one of the largest petro-chemical plants in Europe. The second is High Ash farm, a small farm near Norwich, UK. Farmer, Chris Skinner, is a passionate naturalist who for 30 years has presented a programme on BBC Radio Norfolk. Through analysing the discourse of both Skinner and Cilea, the book explores what it can reveal about the underlying environmental visions that sustain them. Together with the discourse of other engaged ecological figures, a picture emerges of the connections that exist between our beliefs/attitudes, language and the natural world.

Presenting a framework for analysing environmental discourse from a primarily positivist standpoint, the book draws attention to the discourses that underline social practices felt to be useful, necessary and beneficial in these moments of environmental crisis. Although these contexts are European, the methodologies applied, as well as the ecological and linguistic issues dealt with, are universal, clarifying the relationship between social practices and language itself, viewed in the book as an ecosystem that is also in need of loving attention.

Douglas Mark Ponton is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy.

Introduction
1. Ecolinguistics
2. Environmental Discourse
3. Reserve and Refinery
4. High Ash
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
Zusatzinfo 4 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-28142-5 / 1350281425
ISBN-13 978-1-350-28142-4 / 9781350281424
Zustand Neuware
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