The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins with chapters on language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment, with authors providing insight into the link between the loss of languages and the loss of species. It continues with an overview of the role of language and discourse in describing, concealing, and helping to solve environmental problems. With discussions on new orientations and topics for further exploration in the field, chapters in the last section show ecolinguistics as a pacesetter into a new scientific age. This Handbook is an excellent resource for students and researchers interested in language and the environment, language contact, and beyond.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins with chapters on language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment, with authors providing insight into the link between the loss of languages and the loss of species. It continues with an overview of the role of language and discourse in describing, concealing, and helping to solve environmental problems. With discussions on new orientations and topics for further exploration in the field, chapters in the last section show ecolinguistics as a pacesetter into a new scientific age. This Handbook is an excellent resource for students and researchers interested in language and the environment, language contact, and beyond.

What kind of cultural encounters enhance cultural awareness and intercultural competence in educational contexts? This volume highlights the potential of different types of (inter)cultural encounters for intercultural learning and developing critical (cultural) awareness in education. Several articles explore the potential of critical reading of classical and other culturally relevant texts as well as physical or virtual encounters with people from other cultures as part of course activities for the development of intercultural competence.

The papers collected in this volume thematise the relation between language and ecology. In the first part of the book, the focus is on the « ecological aspects of different languages, with special reference to language maintenance, language loss and the influence languages have on each other. In the second part, the representation of environmental topics in the media is studied from a discourse critical point of view. What is the role of language in the development of the ecological crisis and in the attempts to master it? How are environmentally sensitive topics dealt with in the press, in TV programmes and on the radio? The volume also contains papers in which the theory of ecolinguistics is put on firm ground. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes befassen sich mit der Verbindung von Sprache und Okologie. Im ersten Teil wird auf die « okologischen Beziehungen zwischen einzelnen Sprachen eingegangen, bei denen Prozesse der Verdrangung, Mischung und gegenseitigen Beeinflussung ablaufen. Im zweiten Teil wird die Darstellung von Umwelt-Themen in den Medien diskurskritisch beleuchtet. Wie wird mit diesen Themen in der Presse, in Radio- und Fernsehprogrammen umgegangen? Welche Rolle spielt die Sprache ganz allgemein bei der Entstehung und Bewaltigung okologischer Krisen? Der Band enthalt auch programmatische Aufsatze, in denen das Paradigma der Okolinguistik theoretisch begrundet wird. Contents/Aus dem Inhalt: Alwin Fill: Tensional Arches: Language and Ecology. Im Spannungsfeld von Sprache und Okologie -- Peter Finke: Die Nachhaltigkeit der Sprache - Funf ineinander verschachtelte Puppen der linguistischen Okonomie -- Ludwig Fischer: The Conservation of Conversation beyond English --Albert Bastardas-Boada: The Ecological Perspective: Benefits and Risks for Sociolinguistics and Language Policy and Planning -- Wilhelm Trampe: Okologische Linguistik und HumanOkologie -- Karin Wullenweber: Zur Okolinguistik in der Slawistik und den okologischen Diskursen in Russland und Bulgarien -- Jeroen Darquennes/Peter Nelde: Okolinguistik und Minderheitsforschung - Uberlegungen zu einem okolinguistischen Forschungsansatz -- Rosemarie Glaser: Australische Aborigine-Sprachen im Lichte der SprachOkologie -- Rodica Cristina Turcanu: Rezeption und Rezession der rumanisch-deutsch-ungarischen Sprachkontaktelemente in Baia Mare/Rumanien -- Marietta Calderon: Frankophonie in Israel: Ideologisch-identitare Diskurs-(ordnungs)konstruktionen und ihre Wechselwirkungen -- Eva Lavric: Zur Rolle der Muttersprache im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Eine empirische Untersuchung -- Adam Makkai: The Role of the Human Voice in the Eco-Semantics of Human Interaction -- Richard Alexander: Everyone is Talking about 'Sustainable Development'. Can they all Mean the Same Thing? Computer Discourse Analysis of Ecological Texts -- Martin Doring: « Vereint hinterm Deich - Die metaphorische Konstruktion der Wiedervereinigung in der deutschen Presseberichterstattung zur Oderflut 1997 -- Adelaide Chichorro Ferreira: Beitrag zu einem « Hausspracheworterbuch Deutsch-Portugiesisch -- Dieter D. Genske/Ernest W.B. Hess-Luttich: Gesprache ubers Wasser - Ein okosemiotisches Projekt zur Umweltkommunikation im Nord-Sud-Dialog -- Andrea Gerbig: Reprasentation 'gruner' Wirtschaftpolitik in der britischen und deutschen Presse -- Georg Marko: Whales and Language - Critically Analysing Whale-Friendly Discourse -- GernotNeuwirth: Eco-Linguistics - Going Beyond the Text -- Hermine Penz: « Gentechnik ganz einfach erklart - Gentechnikdiskurs in der Talkshow -- Gesine Lenore Schiewer: Sind gesellschaftliche Diskurse uber Technikfolgen rational? Kooperative Verstandigung in kommunikationstheoretischer Perspektive -- Jorgen Door/Jorgen Chr. Bang: Ecology, Ethics and Communication - An Essay in Eco-linguistics -- Jeppe Bundsgaard/Sune Steffensen: The Dialectics of Ecological Morphology -- Anna Vibeke Lindo/Simon S. Simonsen: An Ecolinguistic Reading of a Scientific Text on Psychoneuroimmunology -- Marietta Calderon: Metadiskursive Uberlegungen zu intradisziplinar-interkulturellen Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf ihre mogliche Relevanz fur sprachokologisches Arbeiten -- Orsoly Koskai: Okolinguistik jenseits der Eindimensionalitat -- Harald Nilsen: Learning Norwegian as a Second Language (NSL) through E-mail Correspondence between Russian Immigrants and Natives of Norway - A Critical Investigation -- Manoel Soares Sarmento: Ecoloxicography - Ecological and Unecological Words and Expressions.