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• Abram, David (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Vintage
  

• Alexander, R.J., Bang, J.C., Døør, J., (Eds.), 1993. Papers for the symposium ‘Ecolinguistics. Problems, theories and methods’ AILA 1993. Odense University, Odense
  

• Alexander, Richard (1973) Towards a multidisciplinary view of language: Some biolinguistic reflections. Linguistische Berichte 25/73: 1-21.
  

• Alexander, Richard (2003) Resisting imposed metaphors of value: Vandana Shiva’s role in supporting Third World agriculture. metaphorik.de 04
  

• Alexander, Richard (2009) Framing discourse on the environment. A critical discourse approach. Routledge, New York and London.
  

• Bang, J.C., Døør, J., Alexander, R.J., Fill, A., Verhagen, F., (Eds.), 1996. Language and Ecology: Eco-Linguistics. Problems, Theories and Methods. Essays for the AILA 1996 Symposium. Odense University, Odense.
  

• Bastardas-Boada, Albert (2002), "Biological and linguistic diversity: Transdisciplinary explorations for a socioecology of languages", Diverscité langues, vol. VII, Analyses et réflexions
  

• Bastardas-Boada, Albert (2002), “The Ecological perspective: Benefits and risks for Sociolinguistics and Language Policy and Planning”, in: Fill, Alwin, Hermine Penz, & W. Trampe (eds.), Colourful Green Ideas. Berna: Peter Lang, pp. 77-88.
  

• Bastardas-Boada, Albert (2003), "Ecology and diversity: A comparative trip from Biology to Linguistics", in: Boudreau, Annette et alii (eds.), Colloque international sur l'Écologie des langues. París: L'Harmattan, pp. 33-43.
  

• Bastardas-Boada, Albert (2005), Linguistic sustainability and language ecology, Language & Ecology, vol. 1, n. 4.
  

• Bastardas-Boada, Albert (2010), “Towards a global model of linguistic ecology”, Catalan International View  5 (Winter 2009-10), pp. 14-17.
  

• Bate, Jonathon (2000) The song of the Earth. London: Picador
  

• Benton, Lisa and R. Short and R. John (1999) Environmental discourse and practice. London: Blackwell
  

• Boykoff, M. T. (2007). Flogging a dead norm? Newspaper coverage of anthropogenic climate change in the United States and United Kingdom from 2003 to 2006. Area, 39(4), 470-481.
  

• Carolan, Michael (2006) The values and vulnerabilities of metaphors within the environmental sciences. Society and Natural Resources 19:921-930
  

• Carvalho, A. (2005) Representing the politics of the greenhouse effect: Discursive strategies in the British media. Critical Discourse Studies, 2(1), 1-29.
  

• Carvalho, Anabela and Burgess, Jacquelin (2005) Cultural circuits of climate change in UK broadsheet newspapers, 1985-2003. Risk Analysis 25: 1457-1469.
  

• Chalwa, Saroj (1991) Linguistic and philosophical roots of our environmental crisis. Environmental Ethics 13:3:253-262
  

• Coppola, Nancy and Bill Karis, eds. (2000) Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Environmental Discourse. Stamford, CT: Ablex
  

• Coupland, Nikolas and Justine Coupland (1997) Bodies, beaches and burn-times: ‘environmentalism’ and its discursive competitors. Discourse and Society 8:1:7-25
  

• Cox, Robert (2006) Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. London: Sage
  

• Dobrin, Sidney and Christian R. Weisser. (2002) Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition. Albany: State U of New York
  

• Doering, M. and Nerlich, B., ed., 2009. The social and cultural impact of the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK: From Mayhem to Meaning. Manchester University Press.
  

• Döring, M., Penz, H., Trampe, W., (Eds.) (2008) Language, Signs and Nature: Ecolinguistic Dimensions of Environmental Discourse. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen
  

• Fill, Alwin and P. Hermine (Eds.) (2007). Sustaining Language. Essays in Applied Ecolinguistics. LIT Verlag, Vienna
  

• Fill, Alwin and Pet Mühlhäusler (Eds.) (2001) The Ecolinguistics Reader. Language, Ecology and Environment. London: Continuum
  

• Gargan, Michelle (2007) Magic Romance: on perfume, language and the environment. Language and Ecology 2:1
  

• Garrard, Greg (2004) Ecocriticism. London: Routledge
  

• Gerbig, A. (1993) The representation of agency and control in texts on the environment. In Alexander, R.J., Bang, J.C., Døør, J., (Eds.), Papers for the symposium ‘Ecolinguistics. Problems, theories and methods’ AILA 1993. Odense University
  

• Gilquin, G., and G. Jacobs (2006). Elephants who marry mice are very unusual: The use of the relative pronoun who with nonhuman animals. Society & Animals, 14(1), 79-105
  

• Glenn C. (2004)  Constructing Consumables and Consent: A Critical Analysis of Factory Farm Industry Discourse. Journal of Communication Inquiry 28:1:63-81
  

• Goatly, Andrew (1996) Green grammar and grammatical metaphor, or language and the myth of power, or metaphors we die by. Journal of Pragmatics 25 pp 537-60
  

• Goatly, Andrew (2000) Critical reading and writing: an introductory coursebook. London: Routledge
  

• Goatly, Andrew (2000) Critical Reading and Writing. Routledge, London and New York.
  

• Goatly, Andrew (2002) The representation of nature on the BBC World Service. Text 22/1: 1-27.
  

• Goatly, Andrew (2006). Humans, animals and metaphors. Society & Animals, 14(1), 15-37. http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/594_sa1414.pdf
  

• Gössling, Stefan and Paul Peeters (2007) ‘If it does not harm the environment!’ An analysis of industry discourses on tourism, air travel and the environment. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 15:4:402-417
  

• Greer, J. and K. Bruno (1996) Greenwash. The Reality behind Corporate Environmentalism. The Apex Press and Third World Network, New York and Penang.
  

• Gupta, A. (2006). Foxes, hounds and horses: Who or which? Society & Animals, 14(1), 107-128.
  

• Haig, Edward (2001) A study of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis to ecolinguistics and the teaching of eco-theory. Studies in language and culture (Nagoya University) 22:2:205-226
  

• Hajer, Maarten (1995) The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  

• Halliday, Michael (2001) New ways of meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics. In Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (eds) The ecolingusitics reader. London: Continuum 175-202
  

• Harmond, David (1996) Losing species, losing languages: connections between biological and linguistic diversity. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 15:89-108
  

• Harré, R., Brockmeier, J., Mühlhäusler, P., (1999) Greenspeak. A Study of Environmental Discourse. London: Sage
  

• Harris, Roy (2001) A note on the linguistics of environmentalism. In Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (eds) The ecolinguistic reader. London: Continuum pp154-159
  

• Herndl, Carl and Stuart Brown, eds. (1996) Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Madison: University of Wisconsin
  

• Heuberger, R., 2007. Language and Ideology: A Brief Survey of Anthropocentrism and Speciesism in English. In: Fill, A., Penz, H., (Eds.), pp. 107-143.
  

• Kahn, Mary (1992) The Passive Voice of Science. Language abuse in the wildlife profession. Trumpeter 9/4, 152-154
  

• Kheel, Marti (1995) ‘License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters’ Discourse’ in Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan (eds.) Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explanations. pp85-125. Durham: Duke University Press.
  

• Killingsworth, Jimmie (2005) From environmental rhetoric to ecocomposition and ecopoetics: finding a place for professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly 14:4:359-373
  

• Koteyko, N. Brown, B. and P. Crawford., 2008. The Dead Parrot and the Dying Swan: The Role of Metaphor Scenarios in UK Press Coverage of Avian Flu in the UK in 2005-2006. Metaphor and Symbol, 23(4), 242–261.
  

• Koteyko, N., Thelwall, M., Nerlich, B., (2010) From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality:: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation. Science Communication, 32(1), 25-54
  

• Leach, Edmund. (1964) ‘Anthropological aspects of language: animal categories and verbal abuse.’ In Eric Lenneberg (ed.) New directions in the study of language. Cambridge: MIT Press
  

• Lee, John (1988) Seals, wolves and words: loaded language in environmental controversy. Alternatives 15.4:21-29
  

• Livesey, Sharon (2002) Global warming wars: rhetorical and discourse analytic approaches to ExxonMobil's corporate public discourse. Journal of Business Communication 39: 117-146.
  

• Marko, Georg (2000) Go veggie! A critical discourse analysis of a text for vegetarian beginners. in Bernhard Ketteman and Hermine Penz (eds) ECOnstructing language, nature and society: The ecolinguistic project revisited. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag
  

• Martin, James (1986) Grammaticalizing ecology. The politics of baby seals and kangaroos. In T Threadgold, E Grosz, G Kress and M Halliday (eds) Semiotics, ideology, language. Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture (pp235-67)
  

• Meisner, Mark (1995) Metaphors of nature: old vinegar in new bottles? The Trumpeter 12.1:11-18
  

• Mitchell, L. (2006). Animals and the discourse of farming. Society & Animals, 14(1), 39-59. http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/595_sa1415.pdf
  

• Mühlhäusler, P., (1993) Linguistic Ecology. Language change and linguistic imperialism in the Pacific region. Routledge, London.
  

• Mühlhäusler, P., (2000) Bleached Language on Unbleached Paper. The Language of Ecotourism. In: Ketteman, B., Penz, H., (Eds.), ECOnstructing Language, Nature and Society. The Ecolinguistic Project Revisited. Essays in Honour of Alwin Fill. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 241-251.
  

• Mühlhaüsler, Peter (1995) The interdependence of linguistic and biological diversity. In David Myers The politics of multiculturalism in Oceania and Polynesia. Darwin: University of the Northern Territory Press
  

• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1996)  Linguistic adaptations to changed environmental conditions: some lessons from the past. In Alwin Fill (ed) Sprachökologie und ökolinguistik, Tübingen: Staffenburg pp105-30
  

• Mühlhaüsler, Peter (2003) Language of environment, environment of language: a course in ecolinguistics. London: Battlebridge
  

• Murata, Kumiko (2007) Pro- and anti-whaling discourses in British and Japanese newspaper reports in comparison: a cross-cultural perspective. Discourse & Society 18:6:741-764
  

• Nerlich, B, Koteyko, N. and and Brown, B., 2010. Theory and Language of Climate Change Communication. Wiley International Reviews: Climate Change, 1(1), 97-110.
  

• Nerlich, B. and Koteyko, N., (2010) Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: A new chapter in green mythology?. Environmental Communication: A journal of nature and culture, 4(1), 37-53.
  

• Nerlich, B. and Koteyko, N., 2009. Carbon reduction activism in the UK: Lexical creativity and lexical framing in the context of climate change. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 3(2), 206-223.
  

• Nerlich, B. and Koteyko, N., 2009. Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: The case of ‘carbon indulgences’. Global Environmental Change, 19(3), 345-353.
  

• Nerlich, B., 2009. 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman': Foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon. In: CARRITHERS, M., ed. Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life. New York/Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 87-106
  

• Nettle, Daniel and Suzanne Romaine (2000) Vanishing voices: the extinction of the world’s languages. Oxford University Press
  

• Nygren, Anja (1998) Environment as discourse: searching for sustainable development in Costa Rica. Environmental Values 7:201-22
  

• Owens, Derek. (2001) Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. Urbana, IL: NCTE
  

• Penman, Robyn (2001) Environmental matters and communication challenges. In Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (eds) The ecolinguistic reader. London: Continuum pp143-153
  

• Pennycook, A. (1999) Development culture and language: ethical concerns in a postcolonial world. The Fourth International Conference on Language and Development.
  

• Pennycook, A. (2004) Language policy and the ecological turn. Language policy 3:213-239.
  

• Pickett, S. and M. Cadenasso (2002) The ecosystem as a multidimensional concept: meaning, model and metaphor. Ecosystems 5:1-10
  

• Porter, W. Marc. (1992) The environment of the oil company: A semiotic analysis of Chevron's "People Do" commercials. In Elizabeth L. Toth & Robert L. Heath (eds.) Rhetorical and critical approaches to public relations, 279-300. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  

• Raglon, Rebecca and Marian Scholtmeijer (1996) Shifting ground: metanarratives, epistemology, and the stories of nature. Environmental Ethics 18:1:19-38
  

• Rigby, Catherine (2004) Earth, World, Text: On the (Im)possibility of Ecopoiesis New Literary History 35:3
  

• Sachs, Wolfgang (ed) (1992) The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. London: Zed Press
  

• Schleppergrell, Mary (2001) What makes a grammar green? A reply to Goatly. In Alwin Fill and Peter Mühlhäusler (eds) The ecolingusitics reader. London: Continuum pp.226-228
  

• Sharp, Liz and Richardson, Tim (2001) Reflections on Foucauldian discourse analysis in planning and environmental policy research. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 3: 193–209.
  

• Slater, Paul (2007) The gadgeteer: sex, self and consumerism in Stuff magazine. Language and Ecology 2:1 www.ecoling.net/journal.html
  

• Smart, Graham (forthcoming) “Argumentation across Web-Based Organizational Discourses: The Case of Climate Change.”  In Srikant Sarangi & Chris Candlin (eds.), Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions. Mouton De Gruyter.
  

• Smith, Mick (1999) Review of Greenspeak: A Study of Environmental Discourse. Environmental Politics 8:4:231-233 
  

• Snyder, Gary (2000) Language goes two ways. in Christian McEwan and Mark Statman (eds) The alphabet of the trees: a guide to nature writing. New York: Philmark Lithographics
  

• Stamou, Anastasia and Stephanos Paraskevopoulus (2004) Images of nature by tourism and environmentalist discourses in visitors books: a critical discourse analysis of ecotourism. Discourse and Society 15:1:105-129
  

• Stibbe, A. (2006). Deep ecology and language: The curtailed journal of the Atlantic salmon. Society & Animals, 14(1), 61-77. www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/596_sa1416.pdf
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2001) Language, power and the social construction of animals. Society & Animals, 9:2:145-161 available at http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa9.2/stibbe.shtml
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2003) As charming as a pig: The discursive construction of the relationship between pigs and humans. Society and Animals 11:4:375-392
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2005) Chance encounters: ecology and haiku-inspired photography Language & Ecology (available online at http://www.ecoling.net/journal.htm)
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2005) Counter-discourses and the relationship between humans and animals. Antrozoös 18:1:3-17
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2005) Ecology and the magic of economics. Language and Ecology 1:4 available www.ecoling.net/journal.html
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2005) Environmental education across cultures: beyond the discourse of shallow environmentalism. Language & Intercultural Communication 4:4:242-260
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2006) Deep ecology and language: the curtailed journey of the Atlantic salmon. Society and Animals 14:1:40-61
  

• Stibbe, Arran (2007) Haiku and beyond: language, ecology and reconnection with the natural world. Anthrozoös 20:2:101-112
  

• Stibbe, Arran and Francesca Zunino (2009) Boyd’s forest dragon or the survival of humanity: discourse and the social construction of biodiversity. In M. Döring, W. Penz & W. Trampe (eds.) Language, Signs and Nature: Ecolinguistic Dimensions of Environmental Discourse. Essays in Honour of Alwin Fill.  Tübingen:Schauffeurg
  

• Taylor, Duncan (1991) Disagreeing on the basics: environmental debates reflect competing world views. Alternatives 18:3:26-33
  

• Väliverronen, Esa and I. Hellsten (2002) From ‘Burning Library’ to ‘Green Medicine’: The role of metaphors in communicating biodiversity, Science Communication 24:2:229-245
  

• White, Kenneth (1992) Elements of Geopeotics. Edinburgh Review 88, 163-181
  

• Zunino, Francesca (2008) A Marvellous and Useful New World. Constructions of American Ecology: Christopher Columbus’ Indies and the Contemporary Global Discourse. Language and Ecology, Vol. 2, no. 3
  

• Zunino, Francesca (2008) Different Degrees of Natural. New Encounters and Old Discourses of Amazonian Original Peoples. Language and Ecology, Vo2, no. 4 
  

• Zunino, Francesca (2010)  Latin American Ecolinguistic Issues and the Global Greening of Discourse: Historical Roots and Present Questions. In J. Bang, A. Vibeke Lindø. M. Doering & A. Fill (eds) Ecolinguistics: the Ecology of Science. Tübingen:Schauffenburg
  

• Zununo, Francesca and Martin Döering (forthcoming) Nature Cultures in Old and New Worlds. In S. V. Steffensen and A. Fill (eds) Ecolinguistics: the Ecology of Language and Science. Language Sciences, Special Issue on Ecolinguistics