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[Martin Doering]

New Book:

Martin Doering, Hermine Penz and Wilhelm Trampe(eds.): Language, Signs and Nature. Ecolinguistic Dimensions ofEnvironmental Discourse.Essays in Honour of Alwin Fill. Tuebingen:Stauffenburg.

Synopsis:
Language, Signs and Nature: Ecolinguistic Dimensions of Environmental
Discourse is both a Festschrift for Alwin Fill and at the same time an up-to-date
survey of recent trends in research in Ecolinguistics – a relatively new and
interdisciplinary field of research in linguistics. The volume brings together
theoretical work and applied analyses on the interaction between language
and its cultural and natural environment by prominent researchers. It covers a
wide range of topics including cultural evolution, natural signs and sign-worldsystems,
the ecology of grammar, the discourse of biodiversity, the construction
of the world through discourse by the anti-green movement and
intelligent design creationism, the metaphorical framing of epidemics, etc.
The book will thus be of interest not only to the ecolinguistic community, but
also to the neighbouring fields of environmental studies, human geography,
discourse analysis, semiotics, public policy, and linguistics in general.






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Dr. Martin Döring
University of Hamburg
FSP BIOGUM / FG Medizin
Falkenried 94
D 20251 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: 0049/(0)40-42803-6313
Fax: 0049/(0)40-42803-6315
E-Mail: Martin.Doering at uni-hamburg.de
Internet: www.metaphorik.de
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