Aim and Scope
Green Discourse: Journal of Ecolinguistics and Ecocriticism is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated specifically to research in ecolinguistics and ecocriticism.
The journal publishes scholarly work that examines how language, discourse, literature, and cultural texts represent, construct, challenge, and transform relationships between humans, the environment, and the more-than-human world. Within ecolinguistics, the journal welcomes studies on ecological discourse, environmental language, climate communication, ecological framing, metaphor, evaluation, identity, ideology, greenwashing, environmental narratives, and the linguistic construction of sustainability and environmental responsibility. Within ecocriticism, the journal publishes research on literary and cultural representations of nature, ecological crisis, environmental justice, climate change, extractivism, place, landscape, animals, Indigenous ecological knowledge, postcolonial ecologies, ecofeminism, and human–nature relationships. The journal particularly encourages studies that connect linguistic and literary analysis with contemporary environmental concerns, including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, ecological inequality, sustainability, and environmental degradation.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Ecolinguistics
- Ecological discourse analysis
- Critical ecolinguistics
- Positive ecolinguistics
- Environmental discourse
- Climate change discourse
- Environmental framing and metaphor
- Language, ideology, and ecology
- Greenwashing discourse
- Ecocriticism
- Postcolonial ecocriticism
- Ecofeminism
- Environmental justice in literature
- Climate fiction and ecofiction
- Indigenous ecological narratives
- Literature and the environment
- Ecological imagination
- Human–nature relationships
- More-than-human representation
- Extractivism and ecological crisis in literature
Green Discourse publishes original research articles, conceptual papers, review articles, and special issues that contribute directly to the development of ecolinguistics and ecocriticism. The journal does not prioritize general studies in environmental education, sustainability, communication, sociology, or cultural studies unless they are explicitly grounded in an ecolinguistic or ecocritical framework.