The Ecolinguistics Reader : Language, Ecology and Environment - Softcover

Fill, Alwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826449115 ISBN 13: 9780826449115

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named Ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and using a multitude of methods and approaches. In addition to the original ecolinguistic topics of language interrelation, language endangerment and language pressure, Ecolinguistics Reader also gives due consideration to the themes of biological and linguistic diversity as well as the ecocritical aspect.

About this title

About the Author

Alwin Fill is Professor of English Language, Graz University, Austria.Peter Muhlhausler is Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Review

"[T]here are a number of linguistically interesting and ecologically relevant linguistic facts documented here...The collection as such is interesting in its versatility and well structured..." -ZAA

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826449115
• ISBN 13: 9780826449115
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288