35.3602, Books: Exploring Ecolinguistics: Ponton (2024)

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Date: 18-Dec-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring Ecolinguistics: Ponton (2024)


Title: Exploring Ecolinguistics
Subtitle: Ecological Principles and Narrative Practices
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring-ecolinguistics-9781350281424/

Author: Douglas Mark Ponton
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350281424 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 95
Abstract:

Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this
book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our
relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices
in environmental areas. In doing so, it maps out research pathways for
informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the
discipline.

The book centres on two case studies. The first is a nature reserve
near Siracusa in Sicily run by Fabio Cilea, where flamingos have begun
to breed despite the devastation of the nearby coastline by one of the
largest petro-chemical plants in Europe. The second is High Ash farm,
a small farm near Norwich, UK. Farmer, Chris Skinner, is a passionate
naturalist who for 30 years has presented a programme on BBC Radio
Norfolk. Through analysing the discourse of both Skinner and Cilea,
the book explores what it can reveal about the underlying
environmental visions that sustain them. Together with the discourse
of other engaged ecological figures, a picture emerges of the
connections that exist between our beliefs/attitudes, language and the
natural world.

Presenting a framework for analysing environmental discourse from a
primarily positivist standpoint, the book draws attention to the
discourses that underline social practices felt to be useful,
necessary and beneficial in these moments of environmental crisis.
Although these contexts are European, the methodologies applied, as
well as the ecological and linguistic issues dealt with, are
universal, clarifying the relationship between social practices and
language itself, viewed in the book as an ecosystem that is also in
need of loving attention.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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