FRAMING SUSTAINABILITY IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kosatica, Maida, editor.

Smith, Sean P., editor.

Series:

Routledge research in language and communication.

Routledge research in language and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and culture.

Language and culture.

Semiotics--Social aspects.

Semiotics.

Sustainability.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025.

Summary:

"This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and biodiversity loss but in broader systems of ecological, social, and economic imbalances on a global scale. The book begins with a visual essay which provides a semiotic foundation for understandings of sustainability across disciplinary approaches in the chapters that follow. Subsequent chapters are organized around four thematic sections: reframing sustainability in a colonial world; the semiotics of sustainability; communicating sustainability in everyday life; and communicating sustainability in arts and media. A closing commentary by Crispin Thurlow offers critical reflections on sustainability within language and communication research and beyond. This book will be of interest to scholars addressing sustainability across diverse disciplines, including language and communication, social semiotics, linguistic anthropology, environmental communication, media studies, and development studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Framing sustainability / Maida Kosatica & Sean P. Smith

Visual essay : "banal sustainability" / Sean P. Smith

Section I. Reframing sustainability in a colonial world

Rethinking sustainability through indigenous language futures / Bernard C. Perley

Chronotopes of sustainability and the coloniality of corporate initiatives / Jessica Pouchet

Climate crisis and animal exploitation : historical materialism and the reformulation of industrial discourses / Diego L. Forte

Section II. The semiotics of sustainability

The semiotics of "the unfinished" : the lost highway and other signifiers of unsustainable development / Anders Björkvall & Arlene Archer

Creating shared value : a social semiotic analysis of ESG discourse on social media / Esterina Nervino, Karen C.K. Choi & Jiaying Wang

More than a green embellishment? : a social-semiotic approach to urban plants / Laura Imhoff

Section III. Communicating sustainability in everyday life

Sustainable architecture studio discourse : when the decoupling of communication, intentions, and outcomes presents aspirations for alternative futures / Julia Coombs Fine

Reclaiming sustainability for the anthropocene / Gavin Lamb

Section IV. Sustainability communication in the arts

'Sustainability' in the arts and culture sector : a discourse analytic appreciative inquiry / Kate Power

Climate in the club : conveying sustainable futures through eco grime and solarpunk music / Morgan Sleeper & Jessica Love-Nichols

Staying away from Cthulhu rather than embracing the Cthulhucene : human and non human relations in Netflix's The sea beast / Emelie Fälton & Polina Ignatova

Seeing through sustainability and the wasteful rhetorics of (un)knowing / Crispin Thurlow.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-04-031485-6

1-03-271921-4

9781032719214

OCLC:

1499770700