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 human and ''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.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Lamb
• Assisted by: Mariana Roccia (Editor), Arran Stibbe (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9781350229655
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22965-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Conservation of the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Tourism industry, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc