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Title: | Is Ecolinguistics Necessary? | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21829 | Open Access Link: | http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/20033/14223![]() |
Abstract: | This paper considers whether studies separate from more general linguistic enquiry are necessary at all if we do our general (diachronic and synchronic) nobly. The emphasis is on the eco- of ecolinguistics rather than the necessary. The argument is that the philosophical core of ecolinguistic research is far from new and exists and advances on perennial (historical) linguistic bedrock. The methodological and theoretical thrust of ecolinguistics can be posed as a logical extension of any detailed consideration of elements of analysis necessitated under what can be considered traditional general linguistics and a parameter rich sociolinguistics. It is argued the details of ecolinguistics have been, at least philosophically, addressed in earlier linguistic work, and that the fundaments of ecolinguistics ought not (necessarily) be new to linguistics and may merely be a recently developed appellative for what are recurrent concerns in linguistic science. The query is that if ecolinguistics is old (linguistic) wine freshly housed in new (ecologically focused) bottles, what do the monikers ecolinguistics and linguistic ecology as fields of research actually offer? Despite my critical position, I believe ecolinguistic studies do have a worthy contribution to make both to linguistics and to environmental studies research. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Ecolinguística: Revista brasileira de ecologia e linguagem, 2(2), p. 36-43 | Publisher: | Genis Frederico Schmaltz Neto | Place of Publication: | Brazil | ISSN: | 2447-7052 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics 470411 Sociolinguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130203 Literature 130201 Communication across languages and culture |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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