Linguistics for Peace
Published on 6. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-3-8260-7676-3 (ISBN)
Description
»Language is not the handmaid, but the mother of our thoughts.« This sentence by Karl Kraus stands behind the argumentation of this book. The author argues that certain ideas which language suggests to us (>growthism
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Person
Alwin Fill was born in the Austrian Tyrol and studied English and Latin at the University of Innsbruck. In 1980, he became professor of English Linguistics at the University of Graz. He spent several years in Great Britain (London, Oxford) and also in the U.S.A. (Ann Arbor, Michigan). He is known as an ecolinguist, but also as a researcher for peace. He has composed several peace songs.