Eco-Words

<p>How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without if we were to fast abstain from using words? This book examines the power of words. It explores the links between communication language and identity arguing for a certain gravity to the practice of speech for offering only meaningful words to the people we talk to.</p><p>We are the words we hear and utter we are the words we think and Anna Lisa Tota invites us to use “eco-words” to change the world we live in: “This book is a proposal to myself and to you dear Reader an invitation to change together: while you read and while I write bridging the temporal and spatial gap that separates us and makes it impossible for us to help each other”.</p><p>This volume will appeal to readers interested in the everyday practice of communication. It will also be useful to scholars and students of sociology emotion memory body studies philosophy aesthetics communication studies psychology and linguistics.</p>