The search for new stories to live by: A summary of ten ecolinguistics lectures delivered by Arran Stibbe

Abstract This article is a summary of Professor Arran Stibbe’s ten online lectures on ecolinguistics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The lecture series begins by asking: Why, from an ecolinguistic perspective, do we need new stories to live by? With theoretical insights and practical analyses wide range discourses, it then illustrates how eight types stories, including ideology, evaluation, erasure, salience, identity, narrative, framing, metaphor can work cognitively influence the way people construe reality, in hope encouraging use language that inspire them protect planet instead destroying it.