[Römhild, Ricardo. Global citizenship, ecomedia and English language education]

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'Sometimes you did see me' : Forrest Reid's Demophon

The writings of the Ulster novelist Forrest Reid hark back to his childhood as well as to that of humanity — the Greco-Roman period. As one critic would relate, "[Reid] sought, in Belfast, to live in accordance with the spirit of Greek Mediterranean...

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Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss Everdeen : representation of women in Hunger Games

This article explores the representation of women in the novels of Suzanne Collins, 'The Hunger Games' trilogy (2008-2010) and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020) via a comparative analysis of the two main heroines, Katniss Everdeen and Lucy Gr...

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Placelessness in Stuart Dybek's short stories : the new tramps

The article explores the sense of placelessness in two collections of short fiction by Stuart Dybek: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (1980) and The Coast of Chicago (1990). It examines the role of vagrants in "The Palatsky Man", "Chopin in Winter",...

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The sea as a challenge for ecolinguistic research : proposing a comparative cognitive framework to unravel differences in conceptualisation

By a contrastive and comparative research between French and Wolof in Senegal, this paper interrogates in how far the conceptualisation of the environment is language-bound. This paper synthesises the psycholinguistic method Attribute Listing Task (A...

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From crisis to control : the framing of water in Italian climate discourse

This research aims to examine how hydro-climatic phenomena – specifically glacial melting and sea level rise – are discursively framed in contemporary Italian media. To address the thematic and lexical limitations of general-purpose corpora, a dedica...

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A glass of water : Philip Larkin and the ecolinguistic vision

This paper examines Philip Larkin's poetry through an ecolinguistic lens, exploring his understated yet profound engagement with the natural world. While Larkin is often regarded as a disenchanted poet of modernity, his works reveal a sensitivity to...

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A brand "born from water" : storytelling strategies and sustainability narratives in the construction of Biotherm's brand identity

With the rise of the so-called 'blue beauty', many beauty brands have had to adapt to the need to promote narrations and self-narrations that align with the urgency to care for the environment and minimize their impact on ocean health. Among the bran...

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