Ecolinguistics Reader Language, Ecology and Environment [Paperback]

Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, 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 by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volume long overdue for a discipline now recognized as a significant contribution to variety within the subject.
Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, 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 by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volume long overdue for a discipline now recognized as a significant contribution to variety within the subject.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Roots of Ecolinguistics1. Language and Environment - Edward Sapir2. Language and Gnosis - George Steiner3. Talking about Environmental Issues - Peter Muhlhausler4. Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998 - Alwin FillPart II: Ecology as MetaphorThe Ecology of Language(s)5. The Ecology of Language - Einar Haugen6. The Ecology of Language Shift - William F. Mackey7. A Linguistic Ecology for Europe? - Norman DenisonEcosystems: Language World Systems and Other Metaphors8. Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, LanguaglS±