Language and Climate, Language of Climate: Intro to Ecolinguistics

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Introduction to considerations of the ways language shapes our understanding of the 'environment' and the interactions between humans, other species and the natural world, and how language impacts our conceptions of and responses to climate change. Genres studied include scientific and journalistic communication, social media, film, and literary texts. Work will include introduction to methods of corpus linguistics, metaphor analysis, and critical discourse analysis. Will include comparative considerations across languages and cultures.