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Chapter 11. “Your planet needs you”

An ecostylistic analysis of an ecology-oriented interactive exhibition
  • Elisabetta Zurru
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Abstract

Against the backdrop of ecocritical and ecolinguistic studies, the chapter advocates a wider engagement with ecological matters of ecostylistics and, consequently, a widening of its aims and scope. In particular, the ecostylistic analysis of the two briefing videos projected at the beginning of the interactive exhibition The Science of Survival: Your Planet Needs You will be analysed to explore how the stylistic choices made in the videos help the intended audience gain or widen their ecological awareness, by making such multifaceted and specialised topics as climate change and sustainability accessible to children and adults alike.

Abstract

Against the backdrop of ecocritical and ecolinguistic studies, the chapter advocates a wider engagement with ecological matters of ecostylistics and, consequently, a widening of its aims and scope. In particular, the ecostylistic analysis of the two briefing videos projected at the beginning of the interactive exhibition The Science of Survival: Your Planet Needs You will be analysed to explore how the stylistic choices made in the videos help the intended audience gain or widen their ecological awareness, by making such multifaceted and specialised topics as climate change and sustainability accessible to children and adults alike.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad 17
  6. Chapter 3. Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan 45
  7. Chapter 4. Liminal islands 65
  8. Chapter 5. Urban metaphors 85
  9. Chapter 6. The Arabic of Dune 105
  10. Chapter 7. (Re)mapping “authentic” London 125
  11. Chapter 8. “Boston Strong” 147
  12. Chapter 9. Naming as styling 167
  13. Chapter 10. “She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys” 189
  14. Chapter 11. “Your planet needs you” 209
  15. Chapter 12. London past and present 229
  16. Name Index 253
  17. Subject Index 255
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.37.11zur

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad 17
  6. Chapter 3. Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan 45
  7. Chapter 4. Liminal islands 65
  8. Chapter 5. Urban metaphors 85
  9. Chapter 6. The Arabic of Dune 105
  10. Chapter 7. (Re)mapping “authentic” London 125
  11. Chapter 8. “Boston Strong” 147
  12. Chapter 9. Naming as styling 167
  13. Chapter 10. “She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys” 189
  14. Chapter 11. “Your planet needs you” 209
  15. Chapter 12. London past and present 229
  16. Name Index 253
  17. Subject Index 255
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