Language & Ecology publishes articles on the role of language in the life-sustaining relationships of humans, other species and the physical environment. It also publishes creative works (prose, poems or artwork) which promote ecological awareness, and analyses of these works. Please use the following to refer to articles:

 

Author (date) Title. Language & Ecology. Available www.ecoling.net

 

If you would like to submit an article or creative work please see further information at the botton of this page.

 

Editor: Dr Amir Ghorbanpour, Tarbiat Modares University

Assistant Editor: Rachael Hunt, University of Gloucestershire

Language & Ecology 2023

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Articles

 

An ecolinguistic positive discourse analysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’, a Bukusu oral narrative from Western Kenya

    by Vicky Khasandi-Telewa  Download

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Creative Work

 

Artistic expressions of language, ecology, and story: Language and landscape as explored through watercolor

    by Dawn Wink  Download

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Book Reviews

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Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru, and Ernestine Lahey (Eds.), Language in Place: Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment. John Benjamins, 2021

    reviewed by Ying Fang  Download

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Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples, Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

    reviewed by Violeta Stojičić  Download

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Language & Ecology 2022

                                                

 

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English pronouns and human exceptionalism: A corpus-based study of singular ‘they’ usage for nonhuman animals
    by Michael H. Brown  Download

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The divergent discourses of activists and politicians in the climate change debate: An ecolinguistic corpus analysis
  by Clare Cunningham, Charlotte Foxcroft and Helen Sauntson  Download

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Framing the environment under the pandemic: The anthropocentric perspective (a case study of British online media)

    by Oleksii Zeniakin  Download

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Intra-continental parallels of new Englishes in climate change discourses: A corpus-based appraisal

    by Julius M. Angwah  Download   

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The power of life: Towards an ecopoetics of maize and emancipation in Mexican indigenous poetry

    by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez  Download

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An ecolinguistic analysis of ecocentrism in Cameroon newspaper discourse

    by Valentine Njende Ubanako and Walter Abo Acha  Download

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Belarusian nationally specific image of the universal concept of water
  by Anzhalika Litvinovich  Download

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An application of the theory of ecofeminism in EFL classes

    by Abdelhakim El Moene  Download

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Ignored, yet important: An ecolinguistic analysis of oral narratives in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon

    by Modest Nuel C. Ambe  Download

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Creative Work

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Daiku
  by Daniela Ribitsch Download

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The power of the word
  by Oleksii Zeniakin Download

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The body, nature and dialogue: A year of living cyclically, Samhain to Imbolc

   by Jessica Ball  Introduction    Sketchbook 1    Sketchbook 2    Sketchbook 3    Sketchbook 4

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Poems
  by Keith Moser Download

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Book Reviews

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Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dedinová (Eds.), Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. Bloomsbury, 2022

    reviewed by Bill Crozier  Download

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Glenn Willmott, Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

    reviewed by Bill Crozier  Download

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Jason Goulah and John Katunich (Eds.), TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era. Bloomsbury, 2020

    reviewed by Marco A. Micalay-Hurtado  Download

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Nar Deo Sharma, Eclectic Eco-Concerns in Stephen Gill’s Poetry. Bio Green, 2022

    reviewed by Suresh Pande  Download

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John Yunker (Ed.), Writing for Animals: New Perspectives for Writers and Instructors to Educate and Inspire. Ashland Creek Press, 2018

    reviewed by Diego L. Forte  Download

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Language & Ecology 2021

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Articles

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An analysis of climate change discourses in the UK parliament (2006 – 2018)

    by Sarah Kirk-Browne  Download

 

Dirty or clean? Frameworks for waste

    by Annabelle Mooney  Download

 

Abagusii traditional environmental knowledge and HIV/AIDS management: Implications for English language teaching.

    by Geoffrey Mokua Maroko et al.  Download

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What is a ‘critter’? Potential problems with the scientific community’s use of informal language to describe non-human species

    by Hector Qirko  Download

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Ecosophy through Jātaka tales

    by Monalisa Bhattacherjee and Sweta Sinha  Download

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Translation: A local means of addressing climate change challenges in Togo

    by Akponi Tarno  Download

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Mosaic Collections

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Leaves for life: Text analysis for awareness raising

    by 21 Seeds  Download

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Book Reviews

 

Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By (2nd ed.). Routledge, 2021

    reviewed by Amir Ghorbanpour  Download

 

Lazutkaite Elena, Re/thinking chicken. The discourse around chicken farming in British newspaper and campaigners‘ magazines, 1982-2016. Vernon Press, 2020

     reviewed by Diego Forte  Download

 

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Creative Works

 

Little Red Hat

    by Bridget Irving  Download introduction    Download book 

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Through the green door: Poems of place

    by Tom Mansfield    Download introduction  Download poetry book   

 

The difference between a bird and a plane: The language of the ‘it’

    by Laura Malacart  Download

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