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- Title
Language matters for biodiversity.
- Authors
Fish, Robert D; Austen, Gail E; Bentley, Jacob W; Dallimer, Martin; Fisher, Jessica C; Irvine, Katherine N; Bentley, Phoebe R; Nawrath, Maximilian; Davies, Zoe G
- Abstract
Language is central to the way people learn about the natural world. A salient concern of the biodiversity conservation arena has been to understand how language can be employed by scientists to communicate knowledge to nonexpert audiences and build ecological literacy. The use of analogy and narrative by scientists are prominent techniques. In this article, we consider how these two modes of language-based reasoning extend into ordinary conversational language use by the public, specifically when articulating everyday understanding and experiences of biodiversity. Drawing on a process of public engagement in a UK woodland environment, a typological framework based on principles of analogical and narrative reasoning is developed to characterize the precise character of processes of everyday biodiversity sense making. The implications of the framework are discussed in the context of future biodiversity research, particularly its participatory and educational dimensions.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; COLLOQUIAL language; ENVIRONMENTAL literacy; BIODIVERSITY conservation; BIODIVERSITY; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
BioScience, 2024, Vol 74, Issue 5, p333
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/biosci/biae014