Language as an Ecological Phenomenon: Languaging and Bioecologies in Human-Environment Relationships

by Sune Vork Steffensen (Editor), Stephen Cowley (Editor), Martin Döring (Editor)

Overview

Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not just about nature, but of nature.

Exploring this conceptual change in the field, the book presents a process view in which language is substituted by languaging, emphasising the bioecologies that we cohabit with numerous other species. It puts forward this perspective by looking at the theoretical considerations behind the understanding of languaging as bioecological, and through examining languaging in various contexts and places. Drawing on examples from across the world, it addresses topics such as climate catastrophes, corporate narratives, questions of ecological leadership, the bioecological implications of the COVID pandemic, and relational landscapes. It also makes use of data from across multiple bioecological settings, including the dairy and agricultural industries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350304505
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2024
Series:	Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor of Language, Interaction, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Martin Döring is a senior scientist at the Institute of Geography at Hamburg University, Germany, and at the Institute for Coastal Research at the Hereon Centre Geesthacht, Germany.
Stephen Cowley is Professor of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Sune Vork Steffensen is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Martin Döring is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Geography at Hamburg University, Germany, and at the Institute for Coastal Research at the Hereon Centre Geesthacht, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Ecolinguistics: Living and Languaging United, Sune Vork Steffensen, Martin Döring (Hamburg University, Germany) and Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark)
Part I: Energising Ecolinguistics
2. How (Dairy) Cows and Human Intertwine Languaging Practices: Recurrent Vocalizations are not the same, Leonie Cornips
3. Ecolinguistics and the Cognitive Ecology of Global Warming, Sune Vork Steffensen and Ed Baggs (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
4. Regeneration: From Language to Languaging, Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
5. The Epistemological Conundrum of Language: Humans as Ecologically Special and Ecologically Destructive, Alexander Kravchenko (Baikal State University, Siberia)
6. Varieties of Expression and Enlanguaged Cognition in the Context of a Radicalized Ecolinguistics, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Part II: From Discourse to Worldly Action
7. Ecolinguistics for Ethical Leadership, Arran Stibbe (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
8. Landscape Sentience, Elizabeth Oriel (University of London, UK), Deepta Sateesh (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India), and Amal Dissanayaka (Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Sri Lanka)
9. Considering Cows in Australian Dairy Discourse, Alison Moore (University of Wollongong, Australia)
10. Learning about, Learning from, Learning with: Towards a Critical Practice and Theory of Situated Language Sciences, Chris Sinha and Vera da Silva Sinha
Index