Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics

Malgorzata Drewniok is the Head of International College at the University of Lincoln, UK.Marek Kuzniak is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: A New Ecology of Language, Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, UK)Part I: From EGO: Self- Needs, Readership, SocietyOverview1. From Ego- to Eco-Centricity: Macro- and Micro-levels of Condé Nast Traveller Hotel Descriptions, A Cognitive-Linguistic Account, Malgorzata Drewniok (University of Lincoln, UK) and Marek Kuzniak (Wroclaw University, Poland)2. A Diffractive Analysis of Readers' Responses to Julian Barnes's ‘The Sense of an Ending’, Amélie Doche (Birmingham City University, UK)3. Cohesion and Solidarity in COVID-related Addresses to the Nation, Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) and Helen Kelly-Holmes (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)4. Using Think-Aloud Data to Explore Pathetic Fallacy’s Impact on Narrative Empathy, Kimberley Pager-McClymont (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Fransina Stradling (University of Huddersfield, UK)5. Reader's Reactions to Descriptions of Landscape in Polish Translations of Anne of Green Gables, Beata Piecychna (University of Bialystok, Poland)Part II: To ECO: Nature, Culture, and BeyondOverview6. Methodological Implications of Building the Corpus of News on Economic Inequality (1971-2020): Text Readable Data vs OCR Material, Eva Gómez Jiménez (University of Granada, Spain)7. Modelling the Landscape of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Futility’, Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University, UK)8. Intralingual Eco-Translation Insights into ‘Macbeth’ in African American Urban Slang, Michal Garcarz (University of Wroclaw, Poland)9. Fictional Ekphrasis Representing Childhood Trauma in M. Atwood's Cat's Eye, Polina Gavin (Aston University, UK)10. Body, Mind, and Nature in Rossetti's ‘For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione (In the Louvre)’, Eirini Panagiotidou (West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA)Conclusion: Pathways to Eco, Malgorzata Drewniok, University of Lincoln, Marek Kuzniak (Wroclaw University, Poland)Index

Applied Cognitive Ecostylistics is a welcome insight into the promise of a methodological shift from stylistics to ecostylistics, with applications to text analysis and understanding that center language as an embodied ecosystem nested in other ecosystems: social, cultural, and biological. Accessible yet written with academic rigor, the chapters will be of interest to scholars in the environmental humanities and anyone who recognizes language as the primary space in which an ecological civilization can be imagined, described, and dreamed into being - Marek Oziewicz, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Minnesota, USA.