The Ecolinguistics Reader

Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, 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 by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volume long overdue for a discipline now recognized as a significant contribution to variety within the subject.

Alwin Fill

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Roots of Ecolinguistics 1. Language and Environment - Edward Sapir 2. Language and Gnosis - George Steiner 3. Talking about Environmental Issues - Peter Muhlhausler 4. Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998 - Alwin Fill Part II: Ecology as Metaphor The Ecology of Language(s) 5. The Ecology of Language - Einar Haugen 6. The Ecology of Language Shift - William F. Mackey 7. A Linguistic Ecology for Europe? - Norman Denison Ecosystems: Language World Systems and Other Metaphors 8. Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, Language and Politics - Peter Finke 9. Economy and Ecology in Language - Harald Weinrich 10. The Sociohistorical Dynamics of Language and Cognition - Wolf-Andreas Liebert Part III: Language and Environment Language and Environmental Problems 11. Language and the Natural Environment - Beth Schulz 12. Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis - Saroj Chawla 13. 'The Mountain' and 'The Project': Dueling Depictions of a Natural Environment - Donal Carbaugh 14. Environmental Matters and Communication Challenges - Robyn Penman 15. A Note on the Linguistics of Environmentalism - Roy Harris Linguistic and Biological Diversity 16. Babel Revisited - Peter Muhlhausler 17. The Ecology of Language: Link Between Rainfall and Language Diversity - Josie Glausiusz 18. Linguistic Diversity in Melanesia: A Tentative Explanation - D. C. Laycock Part IV: Critical Ecolinguistics Ecocriticism of the Language System 19. New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics - M A K Halliday 20. Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphor we Die By - Andrew Goatley 21. Language and Ecological Crisis: Extracts from a Dictionary of Industrial Agriculture - Wilhelm Trampe Ecocritical Discourse Analysis and Language Awareness 22. The Passive Voice of Science: Language Abuse in the Wildlife Profession 23. Constructing the Environmental Spectacle - Michael Howlett and Rebecca Raglon 24. The Rape of Mother Nature? Women in the Language of Environmental Discourse - Tzeporah Berman 25. Ecological Criticam of Language - Matthias Jung