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Book SynopsisTrade Review...the book covers a wide scope of issues from economics to politics, from sociology to linguistics, from environmentalism to biology and so forth... It also goes without saying that nature and culture and, generally speaking, all forms of life are inseparably interwoven and that language, on the one hand, also manipulates and even controls it to a certain extent. It is a merit of the book that it makes the readership aware not only of that interdependence but also of the global threat, of the most urgent tasks resulting from it as well as of the role of language therein... This book is a valuable contribution to the discussion of ecology. -- Paul Danler * Moderne Sprachen, 53/1 2009 *
Table of ContentsSection I. Introducing Dialectical Linguistics 1. Language, Ecology and Society: An Introduction to Dialectical Linguistics 2. Language, Linguistics and Social Praxis 3. The Logos of Language: Logics and Dialogue 4. The Topos of Language: Core Contradictions Section II. Deixis and Dialectical Text Analysis 5. Deixis, Text and Context: Why Analyze Deixis? 6. Deixis, Lexis and Anaphora 7. Life Form, Text and Dialogue 8. Text Analysis and Core Contradictions: Fay Weldon's Puffball 9. The Dialectics of Deixis: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Preface Section III. Dialectics, Ecology and Ecolinguistics 10. Dialectical Ecology 11. The Ecology of Communication 12. Similarities and Differences in Ecolinguistics
