Eco-Speak: Language and Style in Ecological Discourse

Esterino Adami is Associate Professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics at the University of Turin (Department of Humanities). His research interests span critical stylistics, ecological discourse, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, metaphor studies, postcolonial discourse, and the semiotics of comics. He is the author of Postcolonial Stylistics (Routledge, 2025), Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts (Routledge, 2022), and Railway Discourse. Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018); he is he co-editor of the volumes Other Worlds and the Narrative Construction of Otherness(2017) and Within and Across: Language and Construction of Shifting Identities in Post-Colonial Contexts (2012). His book chapters and articles include “Remaking the Sense(s) in Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree: A Stylistic Analysis” (2024), “PLACE IS TEXT: Representing the Architecture of Landscape, the Human and Non-human in Arundhati Roy’s Prose” (2022), “Of Monsters, Deities, and People: Conceptualising English Language in the Postcolonial World” (2021), “Feeling the Future: Text World Theory, Emotions and Reader Response in Indian Science Fiction Short Stories” (2021), and “‘Plants Have a Will of their Own’: the Construction of Botanical Metaphors and Symbols in the Literary Garden of (Postcolonial) India” (2016).

Aoife Beville obtained her PhD from the University of Naples L’Orientale in 2022. She is a Researcher in English Linguistics at the University of Foggia. She is the author of Telling Tales in Shakespeare’s  Drama:  A Pragma-Stylistic Approach to Lying (Paolo Loffredo  Editore 2022). Her recent publications focus on the stylistics of persuasion in religious discourses and the functions of irony in poetry. She is the administrative coordinator of  the Argo  Research Centre, where she also collaborates in directing research projects on ecostylistics, (im)politeness in cinema, and the stylistics of pseudos.