Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 THE ROOTS OF ECOLINGUISTICS -- Language and Environment -- Language and Gnosis -- Talking about Environmental Issues -- Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998 -- PART 2 ECOLOGY AS METAPHOR -- THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE(S) -- The Ecology of Language -- The Ecology of Language Shift -- A Linguistic Ecology for Europe? -- ECOSYSTEMS: LANGUAGE WORLD SYSTEMS AND OTHER METAPHORS -- Identity and Manifoldness: New Perspectives in Science, Language and Politics -- Economy and Ecology in Language -- The Sociohistorical Dynamics of Language and Cognition: The Emergence of the Metaphor Model 'Money Is Water' in the Nineteenth Century -- PART 3 LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -- LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS -- Language and the Natural Environment -- Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis -- 'The Mountain' and 'The Project': Dueling Depictions of a Natural Environment -- Environmental Matters and Communication Challenges -- A Note on the Linguistics of Environmentalism -- LINGUISTIC AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY -- Babel Revisited -- The Ecology of Language: Link between Rainfall and Language Diversity -- Linguistic Diversity in Melanesia: A Tentative Explanation -- PART 4 CRITICAL ECOLINGUISTICS -- ECOCRITICISM OF THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics -- Green Grammar and Grammatical Metaphor, or Language and Myth of Power, or Metaphors We Die By -- What Makes a Grammar Green? A Reply to Goatly -- A Response to Schleppegrell: What Makes a Grammar Green? -- Language and Ecological Crisis: Extracts from a Dictionary of Industrial Agriculture -- ECOCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS -- The Passive Voice of Science: Language Abuse in the Wildlife Profession.

Constructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910-1990 -- The Rape of Mother Nature? Women in the Language of Environmental Discourse -- Ecological Criticism of Language -- Bibliography: Language and Ecology -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.