The term “ecolinguistics” is relatively a recent discussion with Eliar Haugen (1972) bringing up the concept of “The ecology of Language”. Since then, various methods and approaches to the field have been suggested to study the language-ecology interaction, primarily from the west. As a result, ecolinguistics is conceived as a new-born western discipline. However, Ecolinguistics, as the term suggests is the specialized study of language-ecology interaction. The “feeling” of the existence of the necessary relationship between language and ecology even before makes us ask the question if the concept of ecolinguistics has not been discussed by linguists before 20th Century. The ancient Tamil linguistic treatise called Tholkappiyam (dated between 6th BCE to 8th CE) presents the fundamental nature of the relationship between ecology, language and culture through the theory called Tinai. The paper primarily draws attention to look into the linguistic philosophy of Tholkappiyam through an ecological perspective. From the ecolinguistic perspective, the paper analyses Tinai based on three criteria: Ecosophy, Aspects of Language-ecology-culture interaction and the theoretical framework of Tinai. Having analysed from the aforementioned criteria, the paper advocates that the framework of Tinai can contribute to the ecolinguistic studies parallel to the philosophies of Edward Sapir (1912) and Hagege (1985).
Hashtags in social media reflect the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak and the consequential shifts and swifts in people’s lifestyles. Several studies related to the pandemic have used hashtags from linguistic, economic, and sociological perspectives. However, the potentiality of hashtags in addressing the pandemic-related anthropological questions is still underexplored. This study verifies how hashtags are primarily anthropocentric and can act as a source for anthropological studies. We have collected COVID-related hashtags in Instagram under five different pandemic-related words like #newnormal, #oldnormal, #quarantine, #lockdown, #pandemic, #corona. Eighty-eight hashtags under the mentioned pandemic-related keywords and 11 neologisms are collected to analyse their linguistic patterns and anthropological implications. The hashtags are segmented into basetags and stemtags to find the lexical significance of individual word units in the pandemic lifestyle. The segmentation helped analyse the range of vocabulary in hashtags used to describe people’s lifestyles during the pandemic. Hashtags are user-friendly and are primarily used as an expressing and recording device. The archival and emotive quality added to hashtags’ searchability and accessibility make them a potential linguistic anthropological research source for the ’COVID-19 pandemic.
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