Ecolinguistics
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Spannungsverhältnisse zwischen Natur und Mensch prägen unseren Alltag, unsere Sprache und öffentliche Diskurse im Themenspektrum der Nachhaltigkeit. Letztere entfaltet normatives Potential, steht bildungs- und wirtschaftspolitisch im... more
One of the dangers that we should be aware of when we study issues of language policy and planning is the fragmentary perspective by which they can be approached. Reality, by contrast, is interrelated and overlapping. This is why a... more
This article seeks to construct a comparative investigation of the role and application of militaristic metaphors in three contested areas of science-society discourse (invasive species, foot-and-mouth disease, and Severe Acute... more
This chapter explores an added value of the master piece – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The super story is cast in typical pre-colonial African villages where there was much dependence on the nature. The setting of the book varies... more
This thesis presents the link between the environment and Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) based on ecolinguistics, which defines the inextricability of the environment and language. The specific aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the... more
This paper aims to discuss how environment, language and rhetoric interplay in the postcolonial context, in particular by focusing on Making India Awesome (2015), a recent collection of essays in which journalist and novelist Chetan... more
This review summarises and comments on a book which presents research-based and anecdotal information on the worlds of fishes. The book attempts to enhance humans' understanding of and empathy for the inhabitants of those worlds. What a... more
DRAFT; COMMENTS WELCOME 'Ibanic lects', speech varieties including Iban, Seberuang, Kantuk and Mualang, share a clear historical relationship. Yet the nature of that relationship is not always clear. How diverse is the Ibanic dialect... more
La notion de norme et de référence à la norme est absolument fondamentale pour qui s’intéresse aux langues humaines. Langues, dialectes, parlers et accents suivent tous des règles rigoureuses, que l’observation permet de déterminer. Il... more
My latest project is a free online course in ecolinguistics. The course describes how ecolinguistics reveals the stories that structure our current unsustainable civilisation, questions those stories from an ecological perspective, and... more
The Chinese provinces are a crazy patchwork quilt of languages and dialects, where the histories of migrations and cultural enclaves, the tides of influence from empire and commerce, the sperm trails that follow rivers and railway lines... more
Foremost; The Cyborg Student. The cyborg is student identity in the digital age. They use digital technology as references and material of projects. Combination of information and digital technology shape psychologically student as a... more
The ecology of language has its foundation in the work of sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists in the 1950s and early 1960s. Since the late 20th century, the ecology of language, sometimes known as “ecolinguistics” or “language... more
This article reports a corpus-aided ecological discourse analysis (EDA) of texts from an international mining company and an environmental advocacy group regarding a proposal to build a massive open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita... more
This study explores emotive language in lyrical nature writing from the perspective of ecolinguistics in four nature books. In fact, embodied mind style is explored by considering emotive language as a linguistic phenomenon that can... more
Charles C. Fries views linguistics as a science. This paper probes into summarizing Charles C. Fries’ view of linguistics as a science from the perspective of American structuralism , pointing out its historical limitations due to... more
When hearing the word ‘policy’ many people think first of lawmakers who draft and pass legislation and politicians who espouse platforms on various social issues, not teachers. Even with respect to educational policy, one might... more
В статье показывается эпистемологическая неадекватность биоморфной и инструментальной метафор, лежащих в основании метаязыка лингвистики, уточняется содержание понятия «экология» применительно к языку и приводятся аргументы в пользу... more
Images, abstracts and sonic expressions form an intricate yet clear pattern in the " weighty " relationship shared by the human " crowd " well connected to one another in Human Chain, the last collection of poems of Seamus Heaney. Another... more
Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating book. He explores... more
Lines written in early spring is a ballad written by William Wordsworth. This poem represents the ecological philosophy of “the Lake Poets”, that is, to appreciate the beauty of nature and form a harmonious relation with nature. The study... more
El presente libro es una propuesta interpretativa, inspirada en la ecología de lenguas, perspectiva metafórica que hace énfasis en la lengua y su ambiente social, pero principalmente toma en cuenta que los hablantes o actores locales son... more
This research aims to present a diachronic model of linguistic diversity in the tropical region of South America, as well as to map the interaction spheres that arose therein during prehistory. For this purpose the Archaeo-Ecolinguistics... more
This book is an attempt to give an overview of how language interacts with its environment, or better, how actual linguistic structure is formed, changed and influenced by different aspects of the human environment. The focus is mainly on... more
In this article we do two things: in the first half, we trace the emergence and development of ecological linguistics, or ecolinguistics, from the early 1970s. Having contrasted the ecological endeavour with the form-based traditions of... more
This article explores the recently emerging area of ecolinguistics as a form of critical discourse study. While ecolinguistics tends to use the same forms of linguistic analysis as traditional critical discourse studies, the normative... more
Since the multi-scalarity of life encompasses bodies, language and human experience, Timo Järvilehto’s (1998) ‘one-system’ view can be applied to acts of meaning, knowing and ethics. Here, I use Paul Cobley’s Cultural Implications of... more