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

This book explores the cutting-edge of ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment, and sustainability in contemporary non-literary discourse. It presents ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories, examines the occurrences of five marker words on environmental organizations' websites, and identifies beneficial discourses and strategies to produce them. It emphasizes that humans are part of nature and reminds us of our connection to the environment.

Format: Hardback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book represents the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment, and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse. Firstly, the book presents the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis (ecosophy, beneficial, ambivalent, and destructive discourses; and foregrounding, point of view, metaphor), and reviews the most recent literature in the field of ecostylistics. Secondly, the book examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organizations and agencies (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, World Wide Fund for Nature). The main research purpose of this study is to identify beneficial discourses in the environment and to investigate the beneficial ecostylistic strategies utilized to produce them. Above all, this book reminds us humans that we do not stand apart from nature: we are a part of it. The book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics, and ecocriticism, as well as scholars of discourse analysis, environmental communication, and environmental humanities.

This book represents the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment, and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse.

Firstly, the book presents the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis (ecosophy, beneficial, ambivalent, and destructive discourses; and foregrounding, point of view, metaphor), and reviews the most recent literature in the field of ecostylistics.

Secondly, the book examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organizations and agencies (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, World Wide Fund for Nature). The main research purpose of this study is to identify beneficial discourses in the environment and to investigate the beneficial ecostylistic strategies utilized to produce them.

Above all, this book reminds us humans that we do not stand apart from nature: we are a part of it.

The book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics, and ecocriticism, as well as scholars of discourse analysis, environmental communication, and environmental humanities.

Weight: 473g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031106576
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022