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The first objective of this paper is to give an historical overview of ecolinguistics, beginning with a discussion of its affinity with ecology. Then the paper presents some of the precursors of ecolinguistics, going onto the emergence of the discipline in the 1970s. Further, it gives a general conspectus of ecolinguistics as it exists today, including some of the most important ecolinguistics groups,...