E-raamat: Eco-Words: The Ecology of Conversation

"Anna Lisa Tota's volume, Eco-Words: The Ecology of Conversation, offers a perspective, or rather, a multisensory perception that penetrates the different layers of natural, social, and individual reality. It captures the subtle complexity of tacit correspondences, interrelations, and references of meaning. The multiplicity of perspectives and levels of analysis in this volume corresponds to an approach that reveals the permeability of distinctions and the inadequacy of rigid and unidimensional categorizations in the critical understanding of both objective and subjective reality."

Ludovica Malknecht, Universitą Europea di Roma, Italy. Published in journal "Trauma and Memory rivista online.

"Eco-words: The Ecology of Conversation is a book, difficult to define once and for all, more flower-like than knife-like, but certainly, like nothing in the world. Suppose I unconventionally begin this review, playing with the title of William Saroyans famous short story. It is because it reminds me of Anna Lisa Totas style to open every chapter with quotation(s) from famous ancient and modern philosophers, sociologists and intellectuals, writers and poets, religious and spiritual teachers and thinkers. But more substantially, it is the most direct possible entrance into her eloquently written and theoretically informed book whose focus is more on empathic understanding than on rigidly rational knowledge per se; it abounds with instructive examples, literary and film plots, old-time sayings from various cultures, Eastern parables and defence katas; touching human stories, personal experiences or heard and retold memories about relations between parents and children in different stages of their life; between spouses, present and ex; between generations, reproducing continuously wrong patterns of communication; a small but rich in insights book, source of wisdom and practical advice, a kind of a concise toolkit for learning to speak meaningfully and avoid toxic words, to present ourselves in harmony with our identity, and fi nally to recognise and overcome our traumas by outgrowing the past."

Svetlana Hristova, "What if Plants Could Talk? On the Possibility of an Anthropology of Communication". https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1248124