Language and Ecology

The articles below include the full archive of the journal Language & Ecology, as well as working papers, student articles and poems related to ecolinguistics. Articles can be referenced using the information at the top of the first page, or in the following format: "Author (date) Title. Language and Ecology Research Forum, available www.ecoling.net/articles". If you would like to publish an article here then please email it to Arran Stibbe (astibbe@glos.ac.uk). Articles need to be written accessibly and be clearly related to ecolinguistics.

Irrititja – The Past. Antikirrinya History from Ingomar Station and Beyond by Ingkama Bobby Brown and Petter Attila Næssan. 2012. Southport, Queensland: Keeaira Press. 64 pages. ISBN 978 0 9805942 5 6 (pbk)
review by Douglas Hudson. Download

Environment and nature

Environmental Discourse in Public Debates in Poland: Relativization, Exclusion and Acceptance.
  by Magdalena Steciag. Download 

Different degrees of natural: new encounters and old discourses of Amazonian original peoples.
  by Francesca Zunino. Download 

Acceptance and avoidance of responsibility in world leaders’ statements about climate change.
  by Mai Kuha. Download 

Awakening at the point of no return. by Arran Stibbe. Download 

Linguistic erosion on the Chesapeake: intergenerational diachronic shifts in lexicalizations of the bay.
  by Anjali Pandey. Download 

Língua e meio ambiente na literatura oral em língua Tetun, Timor Leste [in Portuguese].
  by Davi Borges de Albuquerque. Download 

People, environment, language and meaning: values in nature and the nature of ‘values’. by Denise Dillon. Download 

Worldviews and metaphors in the human-nature relationship: an ecolinguistic exploration through the ages.
  by Frans C. Verhagen. Download 

A marvellous and useful new world: Constructions of American ecology in Christopher Columbus΄ Indies.
  by Francesca Zunino. Download 

Uncertainty about causes and effects of global warming in U.S. news coverage before and after Bali.
  by Mai Kuha. Download 

Advertising, financial discourse and magazines

  The gadgeteer: sex, self and consumerism in Stuff magazine. by Paul Slater. Download 

Magic Romance: on perfume, language and the environment. by Michelle Gargan. Download 

Masculinity, health and ecological destruction. by Arran Stibbe. Download 

On voit grand. Très grand : language and the construction of nature across cultures.
  by Rachel Williams. Download 

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon.
  by Natasha Roberts. Download 

Perfecting’ People, Poisoning Planet: The language of the sunbed tanning industry.
  by Hannah Spencer. Download 

The hide of a rhinoceros or soft as a baby’s bottom? Ecology and the language of cosmetic advertisements.
  by Anne Filbey. Download 

What a Feeling: women, advertising and ecology. by Sara Peck. Download 

Radiant red: the use of flattery in hair product advertisements. by Zoë Clifton. Download 

It's (not) easy being green: unpacking visual rhetoric and environmental claims in car, energy and utility advertisements.
  by Susan Hogben. Download 

Ecology and the magic of economics. by Arran Stibbe. Download 

Consumed by consumerism: the persuasive discourse of financial institutions. by Ian Grabowski. Download 

Education

An ESD Priority: Language issues that should be a central focus in teacher education and curriculum studies classes
  by Chet Bowers. Download

Words and worlds: New Directions for Sustainability Literacy.
by Arran Stibbe. Download 

The Language of Ecological Intelligence. by Chet Bowers. Download 

  Animals

On pigs, political correctness and poetic activism. by Arran Stibbe. Download 

Dog as Self and Other: comparisons to canines as a practice of dehumanisation. by Alec MacLeod. Download 

Extending the circle of compassion to include nonhuman animals: the use of who as seen in grammars and dictionaries.
  by George Jacobs. Download 

Language Ecology

Ecologies of Translation, Translations of Ecologies: Between Ecolinguistics and Translation Studies.
by Philippe G. Lynes Download

Linguistic sustainability and language ecology. by Albert Bastardas-Boada. Download 

Poetry

Poem: License to dredge. by Jenni Meredith. Download 

Poem: From within the darkness. by Maryse Rochette. Download

Thus spoke the Earth. by John Esposito. Download  

Miscellaneous

Hip Hop and Environmental Sustainability. by Declan McDowell. Download 

Haiku and Ecology. by Julia Wood. Download 

Chance encounters: ecology and haiku-inspired photography. by Arran Stibbe. Download 

The Janus Machine: computers, language, and the enclosure of the cultural commons. by C. A. Bowers. Download 

Philosophy, language, and the titanic mind-set. by C. A. Bowers. Download 

Insights into language and ecology. by various authors. Download 

Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions. by Mahendra K Mishra. Download 

Why the George Lakoff and Mark Johnson theory of metaphor is inadequate for addressing the ecological crises.
  by C.A. Bowers. Download 

Inmunidad compartida ante el riesgo geológico en el estado de Colima, México [in Spanish].
  by Gabriela del Carmen González. Download 

The insights of Gregory Bateson on the connections between language and the ecological crisis. by C A Bowers. Download