Ecosocial environment or ecosocial system is a term used in Systemic Functional Linguistics and related fields to describe a social community and the various material ecosystems that enable, support, and constrain it (Lemke 1993, 1995; see also Halliday 2003, Thibault 2004). Ecosocial systems include humans and their interactions and practices, as well as other individuals and species with whom we have co-evolved; they can also include our buildings and tools, landforms and climate, education, politics, warfare, and so on (Lemke 1993, 1995). These systems are simultaneously both material and socio-semiotic.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation
This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today's increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.