Multispecies Discourse Analysis - The Nexus of Discourse Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism Conservation

This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of their shifting multispecies landscape, and as sea turtles gradually reclaim beaches after decades of absence. The book offers researchers in ecolinguistics and related ecologically engaged fields in discourse analysis an integrative theoretical and methodological approach to empirically investigate the ''more-than-human'' discourses and practices shaping problematic human-wildlife interaction. Containing short vignettes in each chapter covering the biology and behaviours of sea turtles, this book suggests how discourse analysts might contribute to a ''life-sustaining multispecies ethics'' in an uncertain socio-ecological time increasingly being referred to as the Anthropocene.>

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: (Re)Making Worlds with Sea Turtles
Vignette: Sensing & Communicating
1. Threatened Sea Turtles: The Nexus of Sea Turtle Ecotourism and Conservation in Hawai'i
Vignette: Nesting
2. Spectacular Sea Turtles: Circulating Discourses of Sea Turtle Ecotourism
Vignette: Basking
3. Protected Sea Turtles: Assembling Sea Turtle Conservation through Community Activism
Vignette: Foraging
4. Charismatic Sea Turtles: Composing Ecocultural Identities with Sea Turtles
Vignette: Homing
5. Flourishing Sea Turtles: Multiplying Perspectives and Local Community Eco-Politics
Vignette: Adapting
Conclusion: Towards a Multispecies Discourse Analysis
References
Index

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Lamb
• Assisted by: Mariana Roccia (Editor), Arran Stibbe (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781350229617
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22961-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics; Bloomsbury Advances in Ecoling
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Marine & freshwater mammals, Conservation of the environment, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Zoology: marine and freshwater mammals, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc