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Presents a view of language and ecology from a dialectical perspective. This book looks at language as a multidimensional phenomenon, which both shapes and is shaped by mind, nature and society. It proposes a paradigm termed Dialectical Linguistics, and argues for a politically and morally responsible approach to language and linguistics.

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. ..the book covers a wide scope of issues from economics to politics, from sociology to linguistics, from environmentalism to biology and so forth... It also goes without saying that nature and culture and, generally speaking, all forms of life are inseparably interwoven and that language, on the one hand, also manipulates and even controls it to a certain extent. It is a merit of the book that it makes the readership aware not only of that interdependence but also of the global threat, of the most urgent tasks resulting from it as well as of the role of language therein... This book is a valuable contribution to the discussion of ecology. Paul Danler, Moderne Sprachen, 53/1 2009

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Jorgen Christian Bang is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Jorgen Door is Associated Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Sune Vork Steffensen is at the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Joshua Nash works as a freelance environmentalist and indologist

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