Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place

This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.

Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, the chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity of issues, settings, and place-worlds. Empirically, the chapters meander through a universe of chimpanzees engaged in problem solving, children playing marbles, political constitutions, agricultural dictionaries, Sicilian nature reserves, children’s experiences of devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, expressions of sorrow across closed borders, and the linguistic conquest of uninhabited islands. By attending to locale, sense of place, and location across this diversity, the volume evokes new empirical, methodological, and practical horizons that allow ecolinguists to ask how people and their emplacement are affected by language and languaging, and how the effects of practices impact on, not just human lifeworlds, but also trillions of bioecologies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.

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Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place

This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.

Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, the chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity of issues, settings, and place-worlds. Empirically, the chapters meander through a universe of chimpanzees engaged in problem solving, children playing marbles, political constitutions, agricultural dictionaries, Sicilian nature reserves, children’s experiences of devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, expressions of sorrow across closed borders, and the linguistic conquest of uninhabited islands. By attending to locale, sense of place, and location across this diversity, the volume evokes new empirical, methodological, and practical horizons that allow ecolinguists to ask how people and their emplacement are affected by language and languaging, and how the effects of practices impact on, not just human lifeworlds, but also trillions of bioecologies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.

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Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place

Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place

Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place

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This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature.

Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, the chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity of issues, settings, and place-worlds. Empirically, the chapters meander through a universe of chimpanzees engaged in problem solving, children playing marbles, political constitutions, agricultural dictionaries, Sicilian nature reserves, children’s experiences of devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, expressions of sorrow across closed borders, and the linguistic conquest of uninhabited islands. By attending to locale, sense of place, and location across this diversity, the volume evokes new empirical, methodological, and practical horizons that allow ecolinguists to ask how people and their emplacement are affected by language and languaging, and how the effects of practices impact on, not just human lifeworlds, but also trillions of bioecologies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language contact, environmental humanities, and human and social geography.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032328478
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/30/2025
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen J. Cowley is Professor Emeritus of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Martin Döring is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Geography at the University of Hamburg and the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Germany.

Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor in Language, Interaction, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: Ecolinguistics and emplacement: Language, languaging and place

Martin Döring, Stephen J. Cowley and Sune Vork Steffensen

1.      The spatial logic of language

Edward Baggs

2.      Building ecocivilizations: Putting ecolinguistic expertise to work

Stephen J. Cowley

3.      Ecological linguistics – On the path to a critically transformative science?

Wilhelm Trampe

4.      Ecological discourse analysis: A unified perspective

Ruijie Zhang and Wei He

5.      Priolo narratives: Evaluation and emplacement in South-East Sicily

Douglas Ponton and Anna Raimo

6.      “I had a lamb I brought everywhere…”: An ecolinguistic analysis of metaphors in children’s poems during the 2001 FMD crisis in the UK

Martin Döring

7.      Anthropocentrism and the human-animal relationship: Language problems and solutions

Reinhard Heuberger

8.      What do they miss? An ecolinguistic approach to everyday language practices by inhabitants of the Polish-Czech border area

Magdalena Steciąg and Urszula Majdańska-Wachowicz

9.      Local and global discourses about managing Norfolk Island

Peter Mühlhäusler

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