Language as an Ecological Phenomenon

Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor of Language, Interaction, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.Martin Döring is a senior scientist at the Institute of Geography at Hamburg University, Germany, and at the Institute for Coastal Research at the Hereon Centre Geesthacht, Germany.Stephen Cowley is Professor of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Ecolinguistics: Living and Languaging United, Sune Vork Steffensen, Martin Döring (Hamburg University, Germany) and Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark)Part I: Energising Ecolinguistics 2. How (Dairy) Cows and Human Intertwine Languaging Practices: Recurrent Vocalizations are not the same, Leonie Cornips3. Ecolinguistics and the Cognitive Ecology of Global Warming, Sune Vork Steffensen and Ed Baggs (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)4. Regeneration: From Language to Languaging, Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)5. The Epistemological Conundrum of Language: Humans as Ecologically Special and Ecologically Destructive, Alexander Kravchenko (Baikal State University, Siberia)6. Varieties of Expression and Enlanguaged Cognition in the Context of a Radicalized Ecolinguistics, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)Part II: From Discourse to Worldly Action7. Ecolinguistics for Ethical Leadership, Arran Stibbe (University of Gloucestershire, UK)8. Landscape Sentience, Elizabeth Oriel (University of London, UK), Deepta Sateesh (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India), and Amal Dissanayaka (Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Sri Lanka)9. Considering Cows in Australian Dairy Discourse, Alison Moore (University of Wollongong, Australia)10. Learning about, Learning from, Learning with: Towards a Critical Practice and Theory of Situated Language Sciences, Chris Sinha and Vera da Silva SinhaIndex

Language as an Ecological Phenomenon offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary perspective … The book’s innovative approach not only deepens understanding of the interconnections between language and ecology but also equips readers with practical frameworks for addressing real-world environmental challenges.