Language & Ecology
ISSN 1745-3631
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
Articles
Discursive effects of multimodal metaphor instantiation in environmental documentary films: An ecolinguistic perspective
by Yana Vermenych Download
Linguistic relativity and environmental sustainability: Lessons drawn from a double language approach to the World Water Forum 2022 in Senegal
by Monika Christine Rohmer Download
Representations of nature and gender roles in Little Red Riding Hood: An ecolinguistic and ecofeminist discourse analysis
by Rachael Hunt Download
Ecolinguistics and AI: Integrating eco-awareness in natural language processing
by Jorge Vallego Download
Spatial co-occurrence of species and language in biodiverse regions: A golden opportunity for conservation
by Ian Connolly, Maria Beger and Janet C. E. Watson Download
An ecolinguistic reading of Luhya oral narratives in Kenya: The ecofeminism and ecocentrism ecosophies
by Vicky Khasandi-Telewa Download
What type of crisis is this? A religious community’s response to the 2018 Camp Fire catastrophe
by Loren D. Lybarger and James S. Damico Download
A linguistic analysis of inclusiveness and exclusion in Kenya’s Mau Forest conservation discourse
by Albert Mogambi-Moinani Download
An ecolinguistic positive discourse analysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’, a Bukusu oral narrative from Western Kenya
by Vicky Khasandi-Telewa Download
Creative Work
The Auld Words or ‘Every Language Matters’
by Fiona Frank Download
A green dream
by Kodjo Adabra Download
As the willow gently weeps
by Keith Moser Download
The birds return
by Albert Mogambi-Moinani Download
Artistic expressions of language, ecology, and story: Language and landscape as explored through watercolor
by Dawn Wink Download
Book Reviews
Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (Eds.), The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 2017; ISBN: 978-1-5179-0185-1.
reviewed by Maria Bortoluzzi Download
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
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
Language & Ecology 2022
Articles
English pronouns and human exceptionalism: A corpus-based study of singular ‘they’ usage for nonhuman animals
by Michael H. Brown Download
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
Framing the environment under the pandemic: The anthropocentric perspective (a case study of British online media)
by Oleksii Zeniakin Download
Intra-continental parallels of new Englishes in climate change discourses: A corpus-based appraisal
by Julius M. Angwah Download
The power of life: Towards an ecopoetics of maize and emancipation in Mexican indigenous poetry
by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez Download
An ecolinguistic analysis of ecocentrism in Cameroon newspaper discourse
by Valentine Njende Ubanako and Walter Abo Acha Download
Belarusian nationally specific image of the universal concept of water
by Anzhalika Litvinovich Download
An application of the theory of ecofeminism in EFL classes
by Abdelhakim El Moene Download
Ignored, yet important: An ecolinguistic analysis of oral narratives in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon
by Modest Nuel C. Ambe Download
Creative Work
Daiku
by Daniela Ribitsch Download
The power of the word
by Oleksii Zeniakin Download
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
Poems
by Keith Moser Download
Book Reviews
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
Glenn Willmott, Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
reviewed by Bill Crozier Download
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
Nar Deo Sharma, Eclectic Eco-Concerns in Stephen Gill’s Poetry. Bio Green, 2022
reviewed by Suresh Pande Download
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
Language & Ecology 2021
Articles
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
What is a ‘critter’? Potential problems with the scientific community’s use of informal language to describe non-human species
by Hector Qirko Download
Ecosophy through Jātaka tales
by Monalisa Bhattacherjee and Sweta Sinha Download
Translation: A local means of addressing climate change challenges in Togo
by Akponi Tarno Download
Mosaic Collections
Leaves for life: Text analysis for awareness raising
by 21 Seeds Download
Book Reviews
Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By (2nd ed.). Routledge, 2021
reviewed by Amir Ghorbanpour Download Download Spanish Translation translated by Ivonne Camacho
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
Creative Works
Little Red Hat
by Bridget Irving Download introduction Download book
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
Submissions
If you would like to publish an article here then please read the author guidelines before submitting it as an email attachment to the editor, Amir Ghorbanpour (journal@ecolinguistics-association.org).
Articles must be clearly relevant to both language and ecology in its literal sense of the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species and the physical environment.
Articles are published in any language, and can be written in a style that suits the subject matter of the article (formal academic writing, scholarly personal reflection, digital story etc).
One of the aims of ecolinguistics is to search for ways of using language and images that inspire people to protect the ecosystems that support life. The journal therefore has a ‘Creative Works’ section where prose, visual art and poems which promote ecological awareness will be published. The journal also welcomes linguistic and visual analyses of these works which will be published alongside them.
Articles are peer reviewed before publication.
