Conceptualizing the Environment

Words as cultural lenses for seeing the world

Editors

Zhengdao Ye | Australian National University

Cliff Goddard | Griffith University

[International Journal of Language and Culture, 13:1] Expected November 2026. ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: In production

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Conceptualizing the environment: Words as cultural lenses for seeing the world Zhengdao Ye and Cliff Goddard
“Day” and “night” in the high north: The changing rhythms of light and life in Finland Cliff Goddard and Ulla Vanhatalo
“Half of our lives is about ice” A postcolonial semantic study of ice place terms in Arctic Danish Stephanie Mašková
Landscape and/in ethnonational concepts in Chinese: The cultural keywords héshan ?? and jianghú ?? Zhengdao Ye and Emma Xu Rao
“A garden gives life, it feeds us” Cultural explainers for the eco-social networks of Solomon Island ‘gardens’ Deborah Hill
The semantics of ecological collapse: A study on Danish fjords Carsten Levisen

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