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Rom Harré - University of Oxford, UK
Jens Brockmeier - The American University of Paris, France
Mühlhäusler

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Environmental Studies/Physical Geography

November 1998 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

In this interdisciplinary examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse; rather than environmental phenomena themselves. This volume is not advocacy on environmentalism, rather, it is an analysis of the means of persuasion and the techniques of advocacy used by both sides of the environmental debate between `conservationists' and `conservatives'. The book includes an analysis of the concepts of time and space in their linguistic manifestations. Another theme is the interdependencies of the natural world with political and economic institutions.

Environmental Discourses

Linguistic Foundations

Rhetorical Uses of Science

Environmental Narratives

The Power of Metaphor

Temporal Dimensions

Ethno-ecology

Linguistics as Environmentalism

The Moral and Aesthetic Domain

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Rom Harré

Jens Brockmeier

Jens Brockmeier is a professor at The American University of Paris and a visiting professor at the University of Manitoba. With a background in psychology, philosophy, and language studies, his interests are in issues of human identity, mind, and language, which he has examined in a variety of cultural contexts. More About Author

Peter Mühlhäusler

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