Climate & Language
An Entangled Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia C Fine (0000-0002-4163-9033, corresponding author), Jessica Love-Nichols, Jessica Love‐Nichols, Bernard C Perley (0000-0002-3786-5564) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 84-98 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_02019 |
| OpenAlex | W4386261701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Rising ocean levels threaten entire communities with relocation. The continued erosion of Arctic coastlines due to melting ice sheets and thawing permafrost has forced Inuit communities to move to more secure locations. Each move dislodges Indigenous peoples and their languages from ancestral landscapes and ways of knowing, obligating communities to adopt colonial or majority languages. Scholars and activists have documented the intersections of climate change and language endangerment, with special focus paid to their compounding consequences. We consider the relationship between language and environmental ideologies, synthesizing previous research on how metaphors and communicative norms in Indigenous and colonial languages and cultures influence environmental beliefs and actions. We note that these academic discourses-as well as similar discourses in nonprofit and policy-making spheres-rightly acknowledge the importance of Indigenous thought to environmental and climate action. Sadly, they often fall short of acknowledging both the colonial drivers of Indigenous language “loss” and Indigenous ownership of Indigenous language and environmental knowledge. We propose alternative framings that emphasize colonial responsibility and Indigenous sovereignty. Finally, we reflect on emergent vitalities and radical hope in Indigenous language movements and climate justice movements
Arctic · Climate change · Climate justice · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Ideology · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Relocation · Sociology · Sovereignty · Traditional knowledge · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Ecology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law
Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition
How Grammatical Choice Shapes Media Representations of Climate (Un)certainty
Green grammar and grammatical metaphor, or language and the myth of power, or metaphors we die by
Making a Modern Wilderness
On Biocultural Diversity. Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment
Embracing indigenous metaphors
Too late for indigenous climate justice
Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty
Linguistic and Philosophical Roots of Our Environmental Crisis
Of linguicide and resistance
Refusing “Endangered Languages” Narratives
Vanishing Voices
Global warming" or "climate change
From “Burning Library” to “Green Medicine
By Any Other Name
"Expert Rhetorics" in Advocacy for Endangered Languages
Environmental Discourses
Zombie Linguistics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |