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Communicating intergenerational justice and climate change: a study of youth-generated environmental discourses

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Awareness of climate change as an intergenerational issue with inequitable risk burden for younger generations is a relatively recent phenomenon. However, youth activists have already managed to come to occupy a meaningful role in climate advocacy. Accepting the invitation to search for positive new discourses to live by, this paper applies a posit...

Language and ecology in social imaginaries: ecolinguistic perspectives

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Grammar, cohesion and the co-ordination of the “self” in a current psychotherapeutic technique

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This paper aims to show how concepts and analytical methods of systemic functional linguistics can work congruently with other human practices to improve outcomes for those undergoing the suffering around loss of meaning and the absence of purposeful, self-directed experience. Based on a two-decade collaboration between linguists and psychotherapis...

Ken-Ichi Kadooka: Japanese mood and modality in systemic functional linguistics

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Systemic functional linguistics: advances and applications

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Robert Poole: Corpus-assisted ecolinguistics

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J. R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz & Pin Wang: Systemic functional grammar: A text-based description of English, Spanish and C...

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Arran Stibbe: Econarrative: Ethics, ecology, and the search for new narratives to live by

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Learning how to mean in a second language: uses of system networks in L2 education

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While approaches informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have been widely applied to the field of language education since the 1960s, the idea of the system embodying the meaning potential of language in context, represented as a system network, could be used to make a much more significant contribution to second language (L2) or foreign ...

Ambivalent or beneficial? An ecological discourse analysis of news reports on the adventures of China’s wandering elepha...

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Based on the ecosophy of “diversity and harmony, interaction and co-existence”, the present study analyzes the characteristics of the attitude system of news reports on the adventures of China’s wandering elephants in China Daily to investigate whether the reports belong to ambivalent or beneficial discourse from the perspective of ecological disco...