Ecolinguistics and Emplacement

This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.

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Stephen J. Cowley is Professor Emeritus of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Martin Döring is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Geography at the University of Hamburg and the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Germany.

Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor in Language, Interaction, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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List of Contributors

Introduction: Ecolinguistics and emplacement: Language, languaging and place

Martin Döring, Stephen J. Cowley and Sune Vork Steffensen

1. The spatial logic of language

Edward Baggs

2. Building ecocivilizations: Putting ecolinguistic expertise to work

Stephen J. Cowley

3. Ecological linguistics - On the path to a critically transformative science?

Wilhelm Trampe

4. Ecological discourse analysis: A unified perspective

Ruijie Zhang and Wei He

5. Priolo narratives: Evaluation and emplacement in South-East Sicily

Douglas Ponton and Anna Raimo

6. "I had a lamb I brought everywhere...": An ecolinguistic analysis of metaphors in children's poems during the 2001 FMD crisis in the UK

Martin Döring

7. Anthropocentrism and the human-animal relationship: Language problems and solutions

Reinhard Heuberger

8. What do they miss? An ecolinguistic approach to everyday language practices by inhabitants of the Polish-Czech border area

Magdalena Steciag and Urszula Majdanska-Wachowicz

9. Local and global discourses about managing Norfolk Island

Peter Mühlhäusler

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