Ecolinguistics: Studying the interaction between language and the environment
Ecolinguistics has developed as an approach to language studies over the past fifty years. Since its beginnings in the 1970s it has applied the ecology metaphor to language in various ways to study the interaction between language and its environment. This paper will briefly trace the history of eco...
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| ভাষা: | Anglais |
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CogniTextes
2026
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Ecolinguistics has developed as an approach to language studies over the past fifty years. Since its beginnings in the 1970s it has applied the ecology metaphor to language in various ways to study the interaction between language and its environment. This paper will briefly trace the history of ecolinguistics and will then discuss its recent developments (Fill & Penz 2018 ; Penz & Fill 2022). Attempts to unify the diverse approaches have identified two and four different ways, respectively, in which the relationship between language and ecology is conceptualized. The latter applies the categories of a symbolic ecology, a natural ecology, a sociocultural ecology, and a cognitive ecology (Steffensen & Fill 2014). With the publication of Stibbe’s (2015) book on Ecolinguistics, the field has taken a more discourse analytic turn, yet the other areas are still present. However, ecological discourse analysis has turned out to be the most productive area of ecolinguistics today. In terms of theorizing, methods of sociolinguistics, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics have been resorted to, yet a recent endeavour aims to develop ecolinguistic theory by conceptualizing language itself as ecological (Steffensen et al. 2024). |
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