Diskurse der Nachhaltigkeit. Sprachliche Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Gesellschaft

How are ecological issues linguistically represented and communicated across different domains of discourse, ranging from science and the media to advertising and culture? How are complex concepts such as climate change, social justice, and sustainable development cognitively and linguistically structured? This edited volume offers a theoretically grounded, interdisciplinary analysis of the linguistic construction of sustainability in contemporary societal debates. It examines both metaphorical models and processes of conceptual integration, demonstrating how meaning is constructed within the domain of sustainability. These perspectives are complemented by lexical, corpus-based, and discourse-linguistic studies that shed light on current developments in German and Polish. By combining theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics with empirical analyses, the volume provides new insights into the role of language in shaping ecological reality.