Environmental discourses

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 457-479

  Mühlhäusler, Peter ^a   Peace, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biocultural diversity; Ecolinguistics; Environmental metaphor; Ethnography of communication; Greenspeak

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 33751066331     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123203     Document Type: Review

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