Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics: From Ego to Eco

This book offers an up-to-date account of one of the most influential strands of eco-research: cognitive ecostylistics. The onset of the 1970s saw a global shift in scholarly perspective upon the relation between egocentric and ecocentric views of the world. The so-called eco-turn was not only linguistic at its roots, but engaged the bulk of academic thought in social sciences and humanities.

Cognitive ecostylistics invites a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the conceptual relatio...