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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics is a comprehensive guide focusing upon the expanding field of ecolinguistics and its investigations of the role of language in the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species, and the more-than-human world. The collection explores topics such as climate change discourse, representations of plants and animals, relationships with land, ecotourism, language education in the Anthropocene and much more, in addition to comprehensive overviews of approaches and methods of analysis such as corpus-assisted discourse studies, econarrative, ecopoetics, ecostylistics, metaphor analysis, positive discourse analysis, and systemic functional linguistics. The chapters illustrate both the primary approaches to analysis within ecolinguistics while also surveying numerous domains in which ecolinguistics research is pursued.


With contributions from international scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds across ecolinguistics, applied linguistics, environmental communication, and the environmental humanities, this handbook is an essential text for those exploring the role of language and the part it plays in the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species, and the natural world.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Robert Poole (University of Alabama, USA)
I. Approaches
1. Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics, Robert Poole (University of Alabama, USA)
2. Ecocultural Identity, Tema Milstein, (University of New South Wales, UK) José Castro Sotomayor, California State University Channel Islands, USA), John Carr (University of New South Wales, UK)
3. Econarrative, Arran Stibbe (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
4. Ecopoetics, Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
5. Ecostylistics, Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari, Italy)
6. Metaphor Analysis, Nataliia Goshylyk (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7. Positive Discourse Analysis, Douglas Ponton (University of Catania, Italy), Anna Raimo (University of Bologna, Italy)
8. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Ecological Discourse Analysis, He Wei (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China), Ruby Rong Wei (China University of Mining and Technology, China)

II. Discourses of Climate Change and the Environment
9. Climate Change Discourse, Hermine Penz (University of Graz, Austria)
10. Discourses of Climate Refugees, Nina Venkataraman (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
11. Environmental Discourse Studies in China: A Critical Review, Ming Liu, Yi Xia (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
12. Discourse, Politics, and the Environment: An Ecolinguistic Perspective, Cinzia Bevitori (University of Bologna, Italy)
13. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Corporate Environmental Discourse, José-Santiago Fernández-Vázquez (University of Alcalá, Spain)

III. Discourses of the More-than-Human World
14. Researching Multispecies Interactions: Nexus and Assemblage, Gavin Lamb (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway), Sari Pietikäinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
15. Biocentric Terminology for Respecting Animals, Including Humans, Carrie Packwood Freeman (Georgia State University, USA)
16. Discourses of Animal Advocacy, Emma McClaughlin (University of Nottingham, UK)
17. Plants in Discourse, Maria Bortoluzzi (University of Udine, Italy)
18. Exploring the Language of Human-Land Relations through a Land-Based Paradigm, Mel M. Engman, Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird, Cristina Martínez López (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

IV. Ecolinguistics across Domains
19. Discourses of Ecotourism, Bal Krishna Sharma (University of Idaho, USA), Gavin Lamb (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
20. The Political Economy of Four Celtic Languages: An Ecological Analysis, Ben Ó Ceallaigh (Aberystwyth University, UK)
21. Ecolinguistics in Second and World Language Education: A Review at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, Jason Goulah (DePaul University, USA)
22. Ecolinguistics and Literature, Andrew Goatly (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
23. Ecological Storytelling, Anthony Nanson (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
24. Language and Ecospirituality, Helina Hookoomsing (Arden University, UK)

V. Expanding Horizons
25. The Impact of Ecolinguistics, Mariana Roccia (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
26. Promising Partnerships: Ecolinguistics and Environmental Science, Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Jennifer Beseres Pollack (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA)
27. Global South Knowledges and Ecolinguistics, Lorena Borges (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil)
28. Redefining Language, Identity, and Heritage through an Ecolinguistics Lens, Jessica Hampton (University of Liverpool, UK), Denea Buckingham (University of Cambridge, UK)
29. Ecolinguistics as Critical Posthumanist Applied Linguistics, Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 20 Aug 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 416
ISBN 9781350497214
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Bloomsbury Handbooks
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Robert Poole

Robert Poole is Assistant Professor in Applied Lin…

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Daniela Francesca Virdis

Daniela Francesca Virdis is Associate Professor in…

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Jessica Hampton

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Amir Ghorbanpour

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