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Arran Stibbe on "Ecolinguistics: The Search for New Stories to Live By"

Lunchtime Colloquium

14.07.2016 12:00  – 14:00 

Location: Katholische Hochschulgemeinde (KHG), Leopoldstr. 11, 1st Floor

Arran Stibbe (University of Gloucestershire) will present on “Ecolinguistics: The Search for New Stories to Live By."

Arran Stibbe will take you on a journey to explore the recently emerging area of ecolinguistics. Along the way there will be examples drawn from economics textbooks, men's health magazines, meat industry publications, nature writing, and Japanese haiku. The key question is whether the examples encode the "stories we live by"—common ways of perceiving the world that underpin our unsustainable industrial civilisation, or whether they hold the promise of providing new stories that we could live by. He will describe how the tools of linguistics, including frames, metaphors, appraisal and modality, can be used to expose the stories we live by, open them up to question, and contribute to the search for new stories to live by.

Arran is the author of Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World and Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By. He is a reader in ecological linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire and founder of the Ecolinguistics Association (www.ecoling.net).

The Lunchtime Colloquium is free and open to the public.

Snacks are served at 12:00; the lecture starts at 12:30.

For more information on the Lunchtime Colloquium series, please click here.