28.2657, FYI: Launch of Free Online Course in Ecolinguistics

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Subject: 28.2657, FYI: Launch of Free Online Course in Ecolinguistics

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:36
From: Arran Stibbe [astibbe at glos.ac.uk]
Subject: Launch of Free Online Course in Ecolinguistics

 
Launch of The Stories We Live By: a free online course in ecolinguistics

The University of Gloucestershire and the International Ecolinguistics
Association are pleased to announce the launch of a new open online course:
''The Stories We Live By: a free online course in ecolinguistics'', which has
been created for public benefit. More information below:

Free: Everything in the course is free, including accessing the materials,
registering, tuition, and a certificate of completion. And you are free to
reuse materials in any way (e.g., in teaching).   

Start right now: Simply go to http://storiesweliveby.org.uk to access all the
main materials. You can work through the course at your own pace. 

What is the course about? The social and ecological issues that humanity
currently faces are so severe that they call into question the fundamental
stories that we live by: stories of consumerism, infinite economic growth,
progress and human separation from nature. This course provides linguistic
tools for revealing the stories we live by, questioning them from an
ecological perspective, and contributing to the search for new stories to live
by.  

Register: Register to access additional materials, take part in discussion
groups, contact a tutor or apply for a completion certificate. 

Free tuition: Tuition is offered by International Ecolinguistics Association
volunteer tutors. They are experts in ecolinguistics, each with their own
research specialism, and can offer help and advice in 12 different languages.

Who produced the course? Arran Stibbe, Reader in Ecological Linguistics at the
University of Gloucestershire, working with a team of volunteers. Arran has a
PhD in linguistics and MSc in human ecology. He is the founder of the
International Ecolinguistics Association and author of Animals Erased:
discourse, ecology and reconnection with nature and Ecolinguistics: language,
ecology and the stories we live by (Routledge). He was awarded a National
Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for teaching excellence
and has published widely on ecolinguistics. 

More about the course: The course examines a great variety of texts from
advertisements, lifestyle magazines and economics textbooks to surfing guides,
Native American sayings and Japanese haiku. In each case, the question is
whether the underlying stories encourage us to care about other people and the
ecosystems that life depends on. Each section covers a type story (ideologies,
framings, metaphors, evaluations, identities, convictions, erasure and
salience) with notes, exercises, videos and (for those who register)
discussion groups, tuition and additional materials.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Linguistic Theories





 



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