Ecological communication and ecoliteracy : discourses of awareness and action for the lifescape /

"This open access book discusses how the environmental crisis is communicated as an urgent global and local issue in a variety of media, texts and events. Focusing on a wide range of case studies (news articles, institutional websites, artwork installations, signposting, social campaigns, and o...

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Other Authors: Bortoluzzi, Maria (Editor), Zurru, Elisabetta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Series:Bloomsbury advances in ecolinguistics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : ecological communication for raising awareness and ecoliteracy for taking action / Maria Bortoluzzi and Elisabetta Zurru
  • Tension in ecological communication / Alwin Fill
  • A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of hurricanes and wildfires and the potential for corpus assisted eco-pedagogy in ELT classrooms / Robert Poole
  • Discourses of cycling advocacy and power amidst wars, petro-masculinity and climate inaction / Maria Cristina Caimotto
  • Communicating the urgency of the climate emergency through verbal and non-verbal metaphors / Elisabetta Zurru
  • Unreliable narratives and social-ecological memory in Kara Walker's A subtlety / Emilio Amideo
  • (Un)welcome waters for multispecies hospitality in the anthropocene / Gavin Lamb
  • Identity representation of plants in relation to humans and the lifescape / Maria Bortoluzzi
  • Promoting ecoliteracy in essayistic media texts through the case of the anthropocene reviewed / Andrea Sabine Sedlaczek
  • Picturebook mediation for children's ecoliteracy in English L2 / Elisa Bertoldi
  • Communicating in and about the ocean through SCUBA interaction and ocean picturebooks / Grit Alter
  • Positive multimodal analysis of EU learning materials to promote ecoliteracy for young people / Sole Alba Zollo
  • Conclusion : a closing and an opening for action-taking through communication / Maria Bortoluzzi and Elisabetta Zurru.