Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy

Maria Bortoluzzi is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Udine, Italy.Elisabetta Zurru is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Genoa, Italy.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ecological Communication for Raising Awareness and Ecoliteracy for Taking Action, Maria Bortoluzzi (University of Udine, Italy) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa, Italy)Part I: Context Setting1. Tension in Ecological Communication, Alwin Fill (University Karl-Franzens, Graz, Austria)2. A Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistic Analysis of Hurricanes and Wildfires and the Potential for Corpus-Assisted Eco-Pedagogy in ELT Classrooms, Robert Poole (University of Alabama, USA)Part II: Multimodal Discourses for Ecological Action3. Discourses of Cycling Advocacy and Power amidst Wars, Petro-Masculinity and Climate Inaction, Maria Cristina Caimotto (University of Turin, Italy)4. Communicating the Urgency of the Climate Emergency through Verbal and Non-Verbal Metaphors, Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa, Italy)5. Unreliable Narratives and Social-Ecological Memory in Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, Emilio Amideo (University of Naples, 'Parthenope', Italy)6. (Un)Welcome Waters for Multispecies Hospitality in the Anthropocene, Gavin Lamb (University of Oslo, Norway)7. Identity Representation of Plants in Relation to Humans and the Lifescape, Maria Bortoluzzi (University of Udine, Italy)Part III: Ecoliteracy for Citizenship Education8. Promoting Ecoliteracy in Essayistic Media Texts through the Case of the Anthropocene Reviewed, Andrea Sabine Sedlaczek (University of Vienna, Austria)9. Picturebook Mediation for Children's Ecoliteracy in English L2, Elisa Bertoldi (University of Udine, Italy)10. Communicating In and About the Ocean through SCUBA Interaction and Ocean Picturebooks, Grit Alter (Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol, Austria)11. Positive Multimodal Analysis of EU Learning Materials to Promote Ecoliteracy for Young People, Sole Alba Zollo (University of Naples, ‘Federico II’, Italy)Conclusion: A Closing and an Opening for Action-Taking through Communication, Maria Bortoluzzi (University of Udine, Italy) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa, Italy)Index

The contributors to this volume promote ecological action through ecological communication and citizenship education. The focus on the interplay between verbal and nonverbal communication adds a fresh perspective to this still underexplored area in the field of ecolinguistics. This book is an important contribution to ecolinguistic research and education for raising ecological awareness.