Helen Bromhead

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helen Bromhead is involved.

Title

Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives

Helen Bromhead

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9] 2018. xii, 227 pp.

Articles

Bromhead, Helen and Cliff Goddard 2025 Applied semantics and climate communication Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:1, pp. 4–27 | Article

This paper explores ways in which applied semantics (coming out of Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach) can inform effective communicative strategies for action on climate change. After framing discussion, it presents three case studies, which are intentionally disparate in nature:… read more

Bromhead, Helen 2024 Chapter 8. Planet in danger! Climate emotions in English: A cultural pragmatics study of eco-anxiety , grief and distress The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten and Zhengdao Ye (eds.), pp. 158–174 | Chapter

People can respond to the planet in danger through emotions. In English, some of the most common emotional reactions to the climate crisis have been labelled with terms such as eco-anxiety, climate grief and ecological distress. This chapter takes the popular, rather than academic, reception of… read more