Ecolinguistics, Social Justice and Sustainability: Voices from the Global South
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Language and Ecology in the Anthropocene
A Symposium on Ecolinguistics
February 5–6, 2026
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The full 2025 issue of Language & Ecology
(accessible on the journal's website)

Articles

• Plant-based sausage at Cracker Barrel?! A cognitive linguistic analysis of the ecological impacts of Facebook comments
by Sara Sowers-Wills

• Metaphors we fight by: A critical corpus-based analysis of war metaphors in Moroccan news discourse on climate change
by Abdelhakim El Moene

• Redefining the oppressed: The biotariat, ecolinguistics, and world-ecology
by Piotr Walewicz

• Neoliberal framing and survey bias in a Japanese community park development questionnaire
by Peter Hourdequin

• Animals in idiomaticity: Cultural symbolism, semantic transparency, and language acquisition
by Summer N. West

• Ecolinguistic phrasing in environmental communication: A comparative study
by Matt Drury et al.

• “Todo está conectado y todo tiene vida”: Language(s) of environmental care in the Sonoran Desert region
by Jacqueline Shea

• Writing ecologically functioning nature: A proposed grid for analyzing popular novels
by Anne-Caroline Prevot and Bastien Berrocal

Creative Works

• Inforestarsi di nuovo / Becoming a forest [in Italian with English introduction]
by Bianca Battilocchi

• Haiku
by Nayereh Nurolhoda [translated from Persian by Amir Ghorbanpour]

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

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Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication
(Open Access)
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https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it
https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/call-for-papers
NLP4ECOLOGY 2026: The 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing
May 12, 2026
Palma, Mallorca, Spain
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https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/41377
📖 Book review: Global citizenship, ecomedia and English language education
✍️ Hossein Davari; Amir Ghorbanpour
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Book review: Global citizenship, ecomedia and English language education
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Apocalypse in Media, Literature, and Linguistics: Narratives of Despair and Hope
Mohamed Mliless, Latifa Belfakir, and Hicham Laabidi (Eds.)
2026
Bloomsbury
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics
Robert Poole, Daniela Francesca Virdis, Jessica Hampton, and Amir Ghorbanpour (Eds.)
2026
Bloomsbury
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https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jwl-2025-0081/html
📖 Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics: An interview with Robert Poole
✍️ Robert Poole; Wei Shen

Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics is an emerging area of linguistic enquiry that integrates the methodological repertoire of corpus-assisted discourse studies with the theoretical framework of ecolinguistics to study language and its impacts on the life-sustaining relationships among humans, other species, and the natural environment. It enables researchers to identify linguistic features and patterns that perpetuate particular forms of discourse and to uncover the underlying ecological worldviews, perceptions, and beliefs embedded within them through the systematic examination of large computerized textual datasets. Drawing on an in-depth interview with Robert Poole, this article aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to corpus-assisted ecolinguistics. It begins with a brief overview of recent developments in ecolinguistics and then examines the historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of corpus-assisted ecolinguistics. The article concludes by discussing future directions for corpus-assisted ecolinguistics and recommending relevant resources for further research and practice.
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Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics: An interview with Robert Poole
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Call for Book Chapters
Environmental Empathy in Early Childhood Education: Voices from the Global South
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Alwin Frank Fill (1940–2026) 🖤💐 R.I.P.

Alwin F. Fill was an Austrian linguist and Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria. He is best known as a pioneer in the development of ecolinguistics. Among his most influential works are The Ecolinguistics Reader, a foundational collection that helped define the field, and The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics, a major reference work that became an essential resource for scholars and students of ecolinguistics.
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Richard Alexander (1945–2026) 🖤💐 R.I.P.

Richard J. Alexander was a British linguist and Professor Emeritus at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, known for his work in critical discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, and business communication. He was the author of Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach, an influential study of how language shapes public understanding of environmental issues.
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Call for Papers
Corpus Studies in Ecolinguistics
Special Issue of Digital Studies in Language and Literature
Guest editor: Robert Poole
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Call for Book Chapters
Environmentalism in Language Education: Global South Perspectives
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