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Arran Stibbe , Ecolinguistics: Language, ecology, and the stories we live by . New York : Routledge , 2015. Pp. vii, 210. Pb. $49.95.
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Ecolinguistics provides a comprehensive introduction to an emerging field that sets out to critically analyze how language is implicated in human engagement with the natural environment in both destructive and life-sustaining ways. From urban development and agribusiness, to nature writing and climate change, Arran Stibbe transports the reader through a series of engaging analyses across ten chapters that progressively develop and apply the theories and methods of ecolinguistics summarized in the introduction. The introductory chapter presents ecolinguistics as a rigorous approach well suited to reveal, resist, and intervene in the ideologies, discourses, and social practices - all different aspects of the 'stories we live by' - influencing...