The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics / edited by Alwin F. Fill, Hermine Penz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fill, Alwin, editor.

Penz, Hermine, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in linguistics.

Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of ecolinguistics or language ecology. It discusses language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment; the role of language and discourse in describing, hiding and helping to solve environmental problems; and argues for ecolinguistics as a pace-maker into a new scientific age.

Contents:

part, I Languages in Their Social and Individual Environment

I. A Linguistic and Biological Diversity: Minority and Majority Languages, Endangerment and Revival

chapter Introduction / Alwin F. Fill

chapter 1 Biological Diversity and Language Diversity

Parallels and Differences / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas David Harmon

chapter 2 The Ecology of Language Contact

Minority and Majority Languages / Albert Bastardas-Boada

chapter 3 Language Endangerment and Language Death

The Future of Language Diversity / Suzanne Romaine

chapter 4 The Economy of Language Ecology 1

Economic Aspects of Minority Languages / Alwin F. Fill

chapter 5 Language Evolution from an Ecological Perspective 1 / Salikoko S. Mufwene

chapter 6 Ecolinguistic Aspects of Language Planning / Robert B. Kaplan

part, II The Role of Language Concerning the Environment (Biological and Ecological Sense)

II. A The Role of Language in Creating, Aggravating and Solving Environmental Problems

chapter 7 Individual and Societal Bilingualism and Multilingualism / Sabine Ehrhart

chapter 8 Linguistic Imperialism and the Consequences for Language Ecology / Robert Phillipson Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

chapter 9 What Creolistics Can Learn From Ecolinguistics / Peter Mühlhäusler

chapter 10 Ecosystemic Linguistics / Hildo Honório do Couto

section I. B Language Contact (Bilingualism and Multilingualism) and Contact Languages

chapter 11 Positive Discourse Analysis

Rethinking Human Ecological Relationships / Arran Stibbe

chapter 12 Using Visual Images to Show Environmental Problems / Anders Hansen

chapter 13 Investigating Texts about Environmental Degradation Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistic Techniques / Richard J. Alexander

chapter 14 The Pragmatics of Metaphor

An Ecological View / Jacob L. Mey

part, 365III Philosophical and Transdisciplinary Ecolinguistics

chapter 15 Lexicogrammar and Ecolinguistics / Andrew Goatly

chapter 16 The Treatment of Environmental Topics in the Language of Politics / Mai Kuha

chapter 17 Eco-Advertising

The Linguistics and Semiotics of Green(-Washed) Persuasion / Hartmut Stöckl Sonja Molnar

chapter 18 ‘Global Warming’ or ‘Climate Change’? / Hermine Penz

chapter 19 Media Reports about Natural Disasters

An Ecolinguistic Perspective / Martin Döring

section II. B How Environmental Topics Appear in Texts and in the Media: Ecological and Unecological Discourse

chapter 20 The Discursive Representation of Animals / Guy Cook Alison Sealey

chapter 21 Euphemisms for Killing Animals and for Other Forms of Their Use / Wilhelm Trampe

chapter 22 Overcoming Anthropocentrism With Anthropomorphic and Physiocentric Uses of Language? / Reinhard Heuberger

chapter 23 Ecolinguistics and Placenames

Interaction Between Humans and Nature / Joshua Nash

section II. C How Do Language and Discourse Transport Ecological and Unecological Ideas?

chapter 24 The Ethics of Scientific Language About the Environment / Brendon M. H. Larson

chapter 25 Ecolinguistics and Education / George M. Jacobs

chapter 26 The Microecological Grounding of Language

How Linguistic Symbolicity Extends and Transforms the Human Ecology / Sune Vork Steffensen

chapter 27 Transdisciplinary Linguistics

Ecolinguistics as a Pacemaker into a New Scientific Age / Peter Finke

chapter 28 Religion, Language and Ecology / Todd LeVasseur

part, IV New Orientations and Future Directions in Ecolinguistics

chapter 29 Ecolinguistics in the 21st Century

New Orientations and Future Directions / Alwin F. Fill Hermine Penz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-68739-9

1-317-41800-X

1-317-41801-8

9781315687391

OCLC:

993977348