Multispecies Discourse Analysis: The Nexus of Discourse and Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism and Conservation

Lamb, Gavin/ Stibbe, Arran (Editor)/ Roccia, Mariana (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1350229652 / ISBN 13: 9781350229655

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2025

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240 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multispecies Discourse Analysis: The Nexus of Discourse and Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism and Conservation
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350229652
• ISBN 13: 9781350229655
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book explores how language and communication shape the increasingly entangled lives of people and sea turtles at the nexus of sea turtle conservation and ecotourism. Here, new ecocultural identities are taking shape as people strive to make sense of their shifting multispecies landscape, and as sea turtles gradually reclaim beaches after decades of absence. The book offers researchers in ecolinguistics and related ecologically engaged fields in discourse analysis an integrative theoretical and methodological approach to empirically investigate the human and ‘more-than-human’ discourses and practices shaping problematic human-wildlife interaction. Containing short vignettes in each chapter covering the biology and behaviours of sea turtles, this book suggests how discourse analysts might contribute to a ‘life-sustaining multispecies ethics’ in an uncertain socio-ecological time increasingly being referred to as the Anthropocene.

About the Authors

Gavin Lamb is Associate Professor in English Language in the Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway.

Arran Stibbe is a Professor of Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. Arran has an academic background in both humanities and human ecology, and combines the two in his teaching and research into Education for Sustainability. He has published widely in the area of ecolinguistics and is currently a senior lecturer and University Teaching Fellow. He is also convenor of the Sustainability in Higher Education Developers group, a network of around 200 sustainability educators across the UK.

Mariana Roccia is the Founder of M.R Language Services and an Independent Scholar.