Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication

<p>This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and biodiversity loss but in broader systems of ecological, social, and economic imbalances on a global scale. </p><p>The book begins with a visual essay which provides a semiotic foundation for understandings of sustainability across disciplinary approaches in the chapters that follow. Subsequent chapters are organized around four thematic sections: reframing sustainability in a colonial world; the semiotics of sustainability; communicating sustainability in everyday life; and communicating sustainability in arts and media. A closing commentary by Crispin Thurlow offers critical reflections on sustainability within language and communication research and beyond. </p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars addressing sustainability across diverse disciplines, including language and communication, social semiotics, linguistic anthropology, environmental communication, media studies, and development studies.</p>