Date: 01-Jun-2006 From: Adam Green <agreencontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Ecolinguistics Reader: Fill, Muhlhausler
Title: Ecolinguistics Reader
Subtitle: Language, Ecology and Environment
Published: 2006
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
Author: Alwin Fill, Graz University, Austria.
Author: Peter Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Paperback: ISBN: 0826481736 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 12.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0826481736 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 25.95
Abstract:
Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then, a special branch of linguistics, named ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volume long overdue for a discipline now recognized as a significant contribution to variety within the subject.