Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment: 37 (Linguistic Approaches to Literature)

Virdis, Daniela Francesca (Editor) / Zurru, Elisabetta (Editor) / Lahey, Ernestine (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027208417 / ISBN 13: 9789027208415

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021

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258 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment: 37 (Linguistic Approaches to Literature)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027208417
• ISBN 13: 9789027208415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.62 kilograms

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Synopsis

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a “stylistics of landscape”, which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a “stylistics of place”, which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a “stylistics of environment”, which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.