Words and Worlds: Language and the Perceived Separation of Humans from Nature

Authors

  • Mark Meisner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37924

Abstract

Cultural representations· of the world permeate much of human experience of that world. In this society, it seems increasingly unlikely that there can be experience that is not somehow overlaid by representation. Under such circumstances, it is our forms of representation that have the greatest impact on how we understand, give meaning to, and value this place in which we live. Perhaps the most significant of those forms is language1 for it is both · the most pervasive and the one through which the others are most often interpreted.

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Published

1991-04-01

How to Cite

Meisner, M. (1991). Words and Worlds: Language and the Perceived Separation of Humans from Nature. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 3, 3–11. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37924

Issue

Vol. 3 (1991): The Representation and Domination of Nature

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Academic

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Copyright (c) 2013 Mark Meisner

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