In this article we do two things: in the first half, we trace the emergence and development of
ecological linguistics, or ecolinguistics, from the early 1970s. Having contrasted the …

This article seeks to develop Translanguaging as a theory of language and discuss the
theoretical motivations behind and the added values of the concept. I contextualize …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

This chapter presents an interactivity-based approach to human problem-solving in the wild.
It introduces the notion of 'interactivity', here defined as sense-saturated coordination that …

Linguists tend to view language in terms of forms and their use. For historical reasons,
speaking and listening are often ascribed to knowledge of a language system. Language …

It is shown that the definition of the subject area of Haugenian ecolinguistics is
methodologically inconsistent because of the implicit biomorphic metaphor, the language …

This article argues for a view on languaging as inherently affective. Informed by recent
ecological tendencies within cognitive science and distributed language studies a distinction …

This article discusses the Distributed Language Approach (DLA) vis-à-vis Dialogism, as it is
presented by Per Linell (2009, 2013, etc.). DLA is a naturalistic and anti-representational …

In this article, we discuss the current status of ecolinguistics and key issues in the field
regarding the positioning of ecolinguistics, and the research objects, aims and …