Ecological Stylistics: Ecostylistic Approaches to Discourses of Nature, the Environment and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783031106576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 138 str.

Daniela Francesca Virdis

Recenzje

 "Ecological Stylistics is the first volume to study beneficial discourses about the environment and introduces a new dimension into the study of language and ecology consistent with the theoretical framework and methodology of ecostylistics. It provides a thorough paradigm for the subject area of ecostylistics ... . this book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations." (Shimiao Guan, Discourse Communication, Vol. 17(4), 2023)

"The well-structured and thorough analysis in this volume tracks the uses of key ecological terms in relevant beneficial texts ... . This book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers and sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations." (Shimiao Guan, Discourse & Communication, Vol. 17 (4), 2023)

"This book provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecostylistics with different levels of knowledge and expertise in this field. ... this book is exemplary ... of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and makes a tangible attempt to reach an audience outside of academia. As such, it has the potential to pave the way for further future collaborations between ecostylisticians on the one hand and ecologists, activists, policy-makers, and scientists interested in the ecological history on the other." (Monica Turci, Journal of World Languages, Vol. 8 (3), December, 2022)

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards an Ecological Stylistics

Chapter 2: Ecostylistics, Ecolinguistics and Stylistics: A Theoretical Overview

Chapter 3: Nature

Chapter 4: Environment

Chapter 5: Ecosystem

Chapter 6: Ecology

Chapter 7: Sustainability

Chapter 8: Summary and Concluding Remarks

Appendix

Index

O autorze

Daniela Francesca Virdis is an Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She is the author of Serialised Gender: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininities in Contemporary TV Series and Media (2012, awarded the Italian Association of English Studies Book Prize 2013) and a co-editor of Language in Place: Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment (2021) and of The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics (2017).

Blurb

“This book introduces a new dimension into the study of language and ecology. Instead of criticizing the use of language about the ‘environment’, as is done in Ecolinguistics, Virdis’s book on Ecostylistics shows the positive side of language about Nature. The way the author displays how ‘beneficial discourse’ (including beneficial metaphor) describes Nature is fascinating. Her definition and evaluation of five ‘marker words’ by using five relevant texts is an outstanding feature of the book.”

--Prof. Alwin Fill, University of Graz, Austria

“In the growing climate crisis, it is difficult to think of a more important branch of discourse analysis today than stylistic analysis of our evolving ways of talking, writing, and thinking about our environment. This study is timely, meticulous and original. It is a fascinating and probing contribution to contemporary ecostylistics, painstakingly tracking the uses of key ecological terms on the websites of certain equally key environmental agencies — influential shapers of the unfolding public conversation we are all part of, which in turn shapes and reflects our adjusting behaviour and policies. In addition to thorough analysis, there is here a subtle and stimulating argument about the role of ‘beneficial’ discourse strategies in the ‘environet’, which should prompt further reflection and discussion among ecostylistic researchers and ordinary readers alike.”

--Prof. Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK

This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse. It starts by presenting the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis, then examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organisations (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, WWF). This book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics and ecocriticism, as well as discourse analysis, environmental communication and environmental humanities.

 

Daniela Francesca Virdis is an Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Cagliari, Italy.