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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

November 1998 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In this remarkably 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 ôconservationistsö and ôconservatives.ö Based on studies conducted between 1992 and 1996, 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. Ultimately, it is a call to action, as the authors see in the increasing ôgreeningö of English and other Western languages, a kind of linguistic way of replacing or postponing action with talk alone. A groundbreaking volume, Greanspeak will promote dialogue among professionals and students in the fields of environmental issues, linguistics, discourse, psychology, and public policy.

 
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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Paperback
ISBN: 9780761917052
$142.00