Foundedin January 2016 and under the leadership of Prof. Huang Guowen, the Centre forEcolinguistics (CE) of South China Agricultural University (SCAU) has achieveda lot (see http://202.116.162.11/en/rese/220.html for detailedlists of its major projects and publications). The Centre’s achievements are soprominent that it is commended twice in “The Routledge Handbook ofEcolinguistics”, which was edited by Alwin Fill and‎ Hermine Penz and to be publishedin 2018.

Whencommenting on the research done by Chinese scholars in ecolinguistics, thehandbook speaks highly of the contributions made by the Centre forEcolinguistics of SCAU, which organized the first international conference onecolinguistics in China (Page 6 and Page 437).

Routledgeis a British multinational publisher founded in 1836 by George Routledge andspecialising in providing academic books, journals, & online resources inthe fields of humanities, behavioural science, education, law and socialscience. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new bookseach year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge isclaimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities andsocial sciences.

“TheRoutledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics” is the first comprehensive explorationinto the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology, and is anexcellent resource for students and researchers interested in language and theenvironment, language contact, and beyond.

(Report and Pictures by Qin Jianhua)