The ecolinguistics reader : language, ecology, and environment / [edited by] Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fill, Alwin, editor.

Mühlhäusler, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named Ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and using a multitude of methods and approaches. The Ecolinguistics Reader brings together the work of precursors in the field (e.g. E. Sapir, G. Steiner) and classic author

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 THE ROOTS OF ECOLINGUISTICS; Language and Environment; Language and Gnosis; Talking about Environmental Issues; Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998; PART 2 ECOLOGY AS METAPHOR; THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE(S); ECOSYSTEMS: LANGUAGE WORLD SYSTEMS AND OTHER METAPHORS; PART 3 LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT; LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; LINGUISTIC AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; PART 4 CRITICAL ECOLINGUISTICS; ECOCRITICISM OF THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics; Bibliography: Language and Ecology; Index; A; B; C; D

EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-29816-6

9786611298166

1-84714-083-1

OCLC:

228883517