Language, Ecology and Society

Joshua Nash is at the University of Adelaide, Australia Sune Vork Steffensen is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Jørgen Christian Bang is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Jørgen Døør is Associated Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

• Section I. Introducing Dialectical Linguistics1. Language, Ecology and Society: An Introduction to Dialectical Linguistics 2. Language, Linguistics and Social Praxis3. The Logos of Language: Logics and Dialogue4. The Topos of Language: Core ContradictionsSection II. Deixis and Dialectical Text Analysis5. Deixis, Text and Context: Why Analyze Deixis?6. Deixis, Lexis and Anaphora7. Life Form, Text and Dialogue8. Text Analysis and Core Contradictions: Fay Weldon's Puffball9. The Dialectics of Deixis: Ludwig Wittgenstein's PrefaceSection III. Dialectics, Ecology and Ecolinguistics10. Dialectical Ecology11. The Ecology of Communication12. Similarities and Differences in Ecolinguistics

...the book covers a wide scope of issues from economics to politics, from sociology to linguistics, from environmentalism to biology and so forth... It also goes without saying that nature and culture and, generally speaking, all forms of life are inseparably interwoven and that language, on the one hand, also manipulates and even controls it to a certain extent. It is a merit of the book that it makes the readership aware not only of that interdependence but also of the global threat, of the most urgent tasks resulting from it as well as of the role of language therein... This book is a valuable contribution to the discussion of ecology.