Language, ecology, and society : a dialectical approach /

Table Of Contents:

Table of Models vi
Editors' Foreword viii
Authors' Foreword xii

Section I. Introducing Dialectical Linguistics 1(86)

Language, ecology and society: An introduction to Dialectical Linguistics (Sum Vork Steffensen) 3(29)

Language, linguistics and social praxis 32(17)

The logos of language: Logics and dialogue 49(17)

The topos of language: Core contradictions 66(21)

Section II. Deixis and Dialectical Text Analysis 87(82)

Deixis, text and context: Why analyse deixis? 89(17)

Deixis, lexis and anaphora 106(15)

Life form, text and dialogue 121(14)

Text analysis and core contradictions: Fay Weldon's Puffball 135(13)

The dialectics of deixis: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Preface 148(21)

Section III. Dialectics, Ecology and Ecolinguistics 169(50)

Dialectical ecology 171(22)

The ecology of communication 193(10)

Differences and similarities in ecolinguistics 203(16)
References 219(6)
Index 225