This paper is an interview with Andrew Goatly, who is honorary professor of English College at Lingnan University.His research interests include eco-critical discourse analysis, metaphor, stylistics, language humour, etc.He has such representative works as
The Language of Metaphors,
Washing the Brain:
Metaphor and Hidden Ideology,
Explorations in Stylistics,
and Meaning and Humour.This interview involves issues about the disciplinary nature of ecolinguistics, "green grammar", ecostylistics, etc.