Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics / Robert Poole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poole, Robert (Robert Edward), author.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in ecolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora (Linguistics).

Ecolinguistics.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2022]

Summary:

"Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces key research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and corpus-aided discourse study, answering foundational questions for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case studies, including the perceptions of single-use disposable products in contemporary consumer culture, the semantic prosody of the word 'water' in national contexts and the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from slaughterhouses. They draw on techniques such as concordances, collocations, n-grams and keyword analysis to show in each case that ecological degradation and crisis have become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse. By applying the most effective tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of environmental discourses, this book makes a significant contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. An Introduction to Ecolinguistics and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study

2. Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics

3. A Corpus-Assisted Diachronic Analysis of Representations of Wilderness

4. Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics for Literary Texts: A Keyness Analysis of Richard Powers' The Overstory

5. Roving Beasts and Bolting Bovines: Wordplay in the Reporting of Animal Escapes

6. Geographical Text Analysis for Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350138575

1350138576

9781350138568

1350138568

OCLC:

1289419477