Conceptualizing the environment: Words as cultural lenses for seeing the word

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of how the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) framework can contribute to environmental humanities. It emphasizes the centrality of key words in environmental discourses and explains what “nsm-enabled” lexical-conceptual semantics based on simple translatable words can offer in this respect. It also provides summary descriptions of each of the Special Issue’s in-depth case studies concerning five distinctive geographical locations — Finland, Greenland, China, Solomon Islands and Denmark. Show more