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Greenspeak
A Study of Environmental Discourse

  • Rom Harré - University of Oxford, UK
  • Jens Brockmeier - The American University of Paris, France, University of Manitoba, Canada, University of Toronto & the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Mühlhäusler


December 1998 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In this interdisciplinary examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse; rather than environmental phenomena themselves. This volume is not advocacy on environmentalism, rather, it is an analysis of the means of persuasion and the techniques of advocacy used by both sides of the environmental debate between `conservationists' and `conservatives'. The book includes an analysis of the concepts of time and space in their linguistic manifestations. Another theme is the interdependencies of the natural world with political and economic institutions.
 
Environmental Discourses
 
Linguistic Foundations
 
Rhetorical Uses of Science
 
Environmental Narratives
 
The Power of Metaphor
 
Temporal Dimensions
 
Ethno-ecology
 
Linguistics as Environmentalism
 
The Moral and Aesthetic Domain

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ISBN: 9780761917052
£109.00