Language & Ecology publishes articles on the role of language in the life-sustaining relationships of humans, other species and the physical environment. It also publishes creative works (prose, poems or artwork) which promote ecological awareness. All articles are peer reviewed.
If you would like to publish an article in the journal then please read the author guidelines before submitting it as an email attachment to the editor at journal@ecolinguistics-association.org
Editor: Dr Amir Ghorbanpour, Tarbiat Modares University
Language & Ecology 2025
Articles
Ecolinguistic phrasing in environmental communication: A comparative study
by Matt Drury et al. Download
"Todo está conectado y todo tiene vida”: Language(s) of environmental care in the Sonoran Desert region
by Jacqueline Shea Download
Writing ecologically functioning nature: A proposed grid for analyzing popular novels
by Anne-Caroline Prevot and Bastien Berrocal Download
Creative Works
Inforestarsi di nuovo / Becoming a forest [in Italian with English introduction]
by Bianca Battilocchi Download
Book Reviews
Gavin Lamb, Multispecies Discourse Analysis: The Nexus of Discourse and Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism and Conservation. London: Bloomsbury, 2024
reviewed by Nina Venkataraman Download
Language & Ecology 2024
Articles
Hello spring! Exploring cherry blossoms in English and French
by Alena Soloshenko Download
Green ideals: How learning the Na’vi language helps protect our planet
by Christine Schreyer Download
Framing a more-than-human world: An ecolinguistic and eco-critical discourse analysis of framing in selected US oceanic discourse websites
by Damilola Isaac Ademola Download
Walking, reading, and writing the trails of Tualatin Hills Nature Park
by Talitha May Download
Fresh air in a box: An eco-critical analysis of advertisements offering solutions to air pollution
by Shreya Parmar and Mona Parakh Download
The ‘Ce qui nous concerne’ (‘What matters to us’) project and participative research with Rennes’ civil society narratives: An ecosophical narratology
by William Kelleher Download
More than a microcosm: Ecology and ecolinguistics in the garden
by Jolyon Kirby Download
Book Reviews
Robert Poole, Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
reviewed by Diego L. Forte Download
Creative Work
Olive trees, Silent Spring and a balcony: Ode to Rachel Carson by Laura Malacart
by Ada Bellanova, translated by Laura Malacart Download
Where is here? The cross-cultural grammar and deeper meanings of experiences in nature
by Peter Hourdequin Download
When is a nature note not a nature note?
by Paul Russell Miller Download
Reflections on insects and decolonization in the Anthropocene
by Talitha May Download
Growing Fear
by Kodjo Adabra Download
Language & Ecology 2023
Articles
Commodification as sustainability: An ecolinguistic study of Swedish wildlife management discourse
by Emile Bellewes Download
Discursive effects of multimodal metaphor instantiation in environmental documentary films: An ecolinguistic perspective
by Yana Vermenych Download
Linguistic relativity and environmental sustainability: Lessons drawn from a double language approach to the World Water Forum 2022 in Senegal
by Monika Christine Rohmer Download
Representations of nature and gender roles in Little Red Riding Hood: An ecolinguistic and ecofeminist discourse analysis
by Rachael Hunt Download
Ecolinguistics and AI: Integrating eco-awareness in natural language processing
by Jorge Vallego Download
Spatial co-occurrence of species and language in biodiverse regions: A golden opportunity for conservation
by Ian Connolly, Maria Beger and Janet C. E. Watson Download
An ecolinguistic reading of Luhya oral narratives in Kenya: The ecofeminism and ecocentrism ecosophies
by Vicky Khasandi-Telewa Download
What type of crisis is this? A religious community’s response to the 2018 Camp Fire catastrophe
by Loren D. Lybarger and James S. Damico Download
A linguistic analysis of inclusiveness and exclusion in Kenya’s Mau Forest conservation discourse
by Albert Mogambi-Moinani Download
An ecolinguistic positive discourse analysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’, a Bukusu oral narrative from Western Kenya
by Vicky Khasandi-Telewa Download
Commentary
Language, connections and the climate crisis
by Fiona Frank Download
Creative Work
Rebirth in a Minimal Sequence of Three Cantos
by Antonia Santopietro Download
The Auld Words or ‘Every Language Matters’
by Fiona Frank Download
A green dream
by Kodjo Adabra Download
As the willow gently weeps
by Keith Moser Download
The birds return
by Albert Mogambi-Moinani Download
Artistic expressions of language, ecology, and story: Language and landscape as explored through watercolor
by Dawn Wink Download
Book Reviews
Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (Eds.), The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 2017; ISBN: 978-1-5179-0185-1.
reviewed by Maria Bortoluzzi Download
Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru, and Ernestine Lahey (Eds.), Language in Place: Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment. John Benjamins, 2021
reviewed by Ying Fang Download
Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples, Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
reviewed by Violeta Stojičić Download
Language & Ecology 2022
Articles
English pronouns and human exceptionalism: A corpus-based study of singular ‘they’ usage for nonhuman animals
by Michael H. Brown Download
The divergent discourses of activists and politicians in the climate change debate: An ecolinguistic corpus analysis
by Clare Cunningham, Charlotte Foxcroft and Helen Sauntson Download
Framing the environment under the pandemic: The anthropocentric perspective (a case study of British online media)
by Oleksii Zeniakin Download
Intra-continental parallels of new Englishes in climate change discourses: A corpus-based appraisal
by Julius M. Angwah Download
The power of life: Towards an ecopoetics of maize and emancipation in Mexican indigenous poetry
by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez Download
An ecolinguistic analysis of ecocentrism in Cameroon newspaper discourse
by Valentine Njende Ubanako and Walter Abo Acha Download
Belarusian nationally specific image of the universal concept of water
by Anzhalika Litvinovich Download
An application of the theory of ecofeminism in EFL classes
by Abdelhakim El Moene Download
Ignored, yet important: An ecolinguistic analysis of oral narratives in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon
by Modest Nuel C. Ambe Download
Creative Work
Daiku
by Daniela Ribitsch Download
The power of the word
by Oleksii Zeniakin Download
The body, nature and dialogue: A year of living cyclically, Samhain to Imbolc
by Jessica Ball Introduction Sketchbook 1 Sketchbook 2 Sketchbook 3 Sketchbook 4
Poems
by Keith Moser Download
Book Reviews
Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dedinová (Eds.), Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media. Bloomsbury, 2022
reviewed by Bill Crozier Download
Glenn Willmott, Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
reviewed by Bill Crozier Download
Jason Goulah and John Katunich (Eds.), TESOL and Sustainability: English Language Teaching in the Anthropocene Era. Bloomsbury, 2020
reviewed by Marco A. Micalay-Hurtado Download
Nar Deo Sharma, Eclectic Eco-Concerns in Stephen Gill’s Poetry. Bio Green, 2022
reviewed by Suresh Pande Download
John Yunker (Ed.), Writing for Animals: New Perspectives for Writers and Instructors to Educate and Inspire. Ashland Creek Press, 2018
reviewed by Diego L. Forte Download
Language & Ecology 2021
Articles
An analysis of climate change discourses in the UK parliament (2006 – 2018)
by Sarah Kirk-Browne Download
Dirty or clean? Frameworks for waste
by Annabelle Mooney Download
Abagusii traditional environmental knowledge and HIV/AIDS management: Implications for English language teaching.
by Geoffrey Mokua Maroko et al. Download
What is a ‘critter’? Potential problems with the scientific community’s use of informal language to describe non-human species
by Hector Qirko Download
Ecosophy through Jātaka tales
by Monalisa Bhattacherjee and Sweta Sinha Download
Translation: A local means of addressing climate change challenges in Togo
by Akponi Tarno Download
Mosaic Collections
Leaves for life: Text analysis for awareness raising
by 21 Seeds Download
Book Reviews
Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By (2nd ed.). Routledge, 2021
reviewed by Amir Ghorbanpour Download Download Spanish Translation translated by Ivonne Camacho
Lazutkaite Elena, Re/thinking chicken. The discourse around chicken farming in British newspaper and campaigners‘ magazines, 1982-2016. Vernon Press, 2020
reviewed by Diego Forte Download
Creative Works
Little Red Hat
by Bridget Irving Download introduction Download book
Through the green door: Poems of place
by Tom Mansfield Download introduction Download poetry book
The difference between a bird and a plane: The language of the ‘it’
by Laura Malacart Download
Language & Ecology 2019-2020 (double issue)
Articles
What’s in a name? An evidence-based approach to understanding the implications of vernacular name on conservation of the painted dog (Lycaon pictus)
by Bryony Blades Download
Ecosophical affability of some Cameroonian proverbs
by Julius Angwah Download
Ecolinguistics: The battlefield for the new class struggle?
by Diego L. Forte Download
Disappearance of the Nile: Storytelling and environmental awareness
by Dina A. Ramadan Download
An analysis of linguistic choices in Kalenjin narratives relating to protection of animals
by Prisca Simotwo Download
Shaping Self: Ecolinguistic studies of identity
by Valentina Boschian Bailo et al. Download
Linguistic Representations of wild salmon health emerging from the Cohen Commission Inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon in British Columbia
by Michelle Riedlinger Download
From Prometheus to Gaea: a case for Earth-centered language
by Cynthia Rosenfeld Download
Book Reviews
Fill, A. and Penz, H., eds., 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics. 1 edition. London: Routledge.
reviewed by Davi B. Albuquerque Download
Arran Stibbe, 2015, Ecolinguistics: language, ecology and the stories we live by
reviewed by Anthony Nanson Download
Jonas Anshelm and Martin Hultman, Discourses of global climate change: apocalyptic framing and political antagonisms.
reviewed by Diego L. Forte Download
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Brent Ryan Bellamy (Editors), An ecotopian lexicon.
reviewed by George Jacobs Download
Jonathan Safron Foer, We are the weather: saving the planet begins at breakfast.
reviewed by George Jacobs Download
Creative Works
Silent Mermaids
by Igor dos Santos Mota Download
Selim and His Shadow
by Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri and Janet C. E. Watson Download
Selim and the Dom Fruit
by Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri and Janet C. E. Watson Download
Transmigration
by Keith Moser Download
Reports
Changing lives and professional practice: A report on the impact of ecolinguistics
by Mariana Roccia Download
Language & Ecology 2017-2018 (double issue)
Articles
Ecolinguistic Stories of Resilience
edited by Valentina Boschian Bailo Download
Framing the Anthropocene: Educating for Sustainability
by Gerri McNenny Download
Changing Representations of Animals in Canadian English (1920s – 2010s)
by Sabrina Fusari, University of Bologna Download
The Role of Campus Sustainability Discourse on the Websites of Four Japanese Universities.
by Peter Hourdequin and Seiji Tani Download
Nonhuman Animals and the Relative Pronoun ‘who’ in English Learner’s Dictionaries and Graded Readers.
by Michael H. Brown Download
Creative Works
Emma
by Ivy T. Gilbert Download
Pigsty
by Gazelle Buchholtz Download
Siyóname Skies
by Felice S. Wyndham Download
Swift Acquisition/Seam/Keeper’s Fee
by Meryl McQueen Download
Book reviews
The Animal Inside: Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies. Geoffrey et al (Eds.) (2016, Rowman & Littlefield; ISBN: 978-1-7834-8821-6)
reviewed by Diego L. Forte Download
Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World. Cecile Pineda (2015, Wings Press)
reviewed by Mira Lieberman Download
Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights. Carrie P. Freeman (2014, Brill)
reviewed by Diego L. Forte Download
Communicating Climate Change: The Path Forward. Susanna Priest (2016, Palgrave Macmillan)
reviewed by José Castro-Sotomayor Download
The Psychology of Pro-Environmental Communication: Beyond Standard Information Strategies. Christian A. Klöckner
(2015, Palgrave Macmillan)
reviewed by George M. Jacobs Download
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. Timothy Clark (2015, Bloomsbury Publishing)
reviewed by Douglas Mark Ponton Download
Literature Reviews
A Critical Review of Ecolinguistic Studies in Iran
by Mahnaz Talebi Dastenaee and Hamideh Poshtvan Download
Language & Ecology 2016
Articles
A review of the “Tourism-environmental conflict signifier” logic as constructed by the Kenyan press in coverage of environmental conflicts
by Lucy Atieno and Joseph Njoroge Download
Ecolinguistics in an International Context: an Interview with Arran Stibbe
by Guowen Huang Download
The presentation of animals in English as an additional language coursebooks
by George M. Jacobs, Teh Jiexin and Michael J. Joyce Download
Paradise in progress? Narratives of place in Monteverde, Costa Rica
by Allison Bender Download
Representations of climate change in documentary television: integrating an ecolinguistic and ecosemiotic perspective into a multimodal critical discourse analysis
by Andrea Sabine Sedlaczek Download
Ecolyrics in pop music: a review of two nature songs
by Amir Ghorbanpour Download
An ecolinguistic study of media depictions of oil spillage in Ogoniland.
by Matthew Abua Ebim Download
Siracusa: Italy’s smartest city? Re-branding issues from a critical ecolinguistic perspective.
by Douglas Mark Ponton Download
Ecolinguistic Perspectives on Our Surroundings
by Katarina Ghdaye et al Download
”The Colorado Beetle’s Attack” Or: the potato bug in the Cold War propaganda service in Poland.
by Magdalena Steciąg and Sylwia Wodzińska Download
Poetry
Sumbul (Bombax ceiba)
by Ayesha Fatima Download
Ecopoetry: Ode to the Firefly
by Keith Moser Download
Dreams of the Tropics: a collection of ecopoems
by Karim S. Lachheb Download
Poetry Collection.
by Mary McGinnis Download
Book reviews
Review of Ecolinguistics: language, ecology and the stories we live by.
by George Jacobs Download
Review of What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
by George M Jacobs Download
An eco-discourse analyst and his stories: an ecolinguist’s duet reviewed
by Zhou Wenjuan Download
Language & Ecology 2015
Ecometaphor: the effect of ecology and environment on shaping anger metaphors in different cultures
by Mahnaz Talebi-Dastenaei Download
Nonhuman Animal Legislation and Speciesist Discourse. Argentina's Pet Responsibility Act: Anti-cruelty Law or Death Row Pardon?
by Diego L. Forte Download
Hermeneutic phenomenology as a basis for ecological Critical Discourse Analysis.
by Craig Frayne Download
Ecolinguistics in Nigerian environmental communication: linking print media reports with daily press review broadcasts.
by Akintoye Samson Japhet. Download
Language and environmental consciousness of society: The situation in Russia
by Olga Khryapchenkova Fischer. Download
An ecolinguistic, scientific, and Serresian interpretation of communication: the importance of (re)-conceptualizing language from a more ecocentric perspective.
by Keith Moser, Mississippi State University. Download
The Natural Choice? Metaphors for nature in a UK Government white paper.
by Douglas Ponton, University of Catania. Download
Artwork: Ecological Art by K.S. Lachheb Download
Language & Ecology 2014 and earlier plus working papers
Worldviews and metaphors in the human-nature relationship: an Ecolinguistic Exploration Through the Ages.
by Frans C. Verhagen Download
Dog as Self and Other: Comparisons to Canines as a Practice of Dehumanization
by Alec MacLeod Download
Chance Encounters: ecology and haiku-inspired photography
by Arran Stibbe Download
The gadgeteer: sex, self and consumerism in Stuff magazine
by Paul Slater Download
Bilingual – “Biecological”? The Impact of Language on Environmental Consciousness
by Olga Khryapchenkova Download
Ecologies of Translation, Translations of Ecologies: Between Ecolinguistics and Translation Studies
by Philippe G. Lynes Download
The insights of Gregory Bateson on the connections between language and the ecological crisis
by C. A. Bowers Download
People, environment, language and meaning: values in nature and the nature of ‘values’
by Denise Dillon Download
Different degrees of natural: New encounters and old discourses of Amazonian original peoples
by Francesca Zunino Download
Consumed by consumerism: the persuasive discourse of financial
institutions
by Ian Grabowski Download
Masculinity, health and ecological destruction
by Arran Stibbe Download
EarthChild: Language, Power, and Symbolism for a Planet in Crisis
by Meryl McQueen Download
From within the darkness
by Maryse Rochette Download