Ecolinguistics and Emplacement - Language, Languaging and Place

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.

List of contents

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
Zhang Ruijie and He Wei
5. Priolo narratives: Evaluation and emplacement in
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?
Magdalena Steci¿g and Urszula Majdäska-Wachowicz
9. Local and global discourses about managing Norfolk Island
Peter Mühlhäusle
Index

About the author

Stephen Cowley is PProfessor 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Doring Cowley
• Assisted by: Stephen Cowley (Editor), Martin Döring (Editor), Sune Vork Steffensen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032328478
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232847-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Applied ecology, Social impact of environmental issues, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics