The year’s work in ecolinguistics 2021

Zhang, Ruijie

doi:10.1515/jwl-2022-0009

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“…These two routes of Ecolinguistics were central as they developed two different dimensions: whereas 'ecology' is discerned metaphorically (Haugen, 1972), it also is considered in its biological wisdom as well, for example, the position of language in the progress and aggravation of environmental and other social problems (Halliday, 1992). Nevertheless, the general definition of the field, according to Zhang (2022), is that "it is a field of study that cares about the relationship between language and ecology" (pp. 142).…”

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The Language of Cultural Ecopoetics: A Linguistic Articulation of Ecological Framing in The Arrival of Monsoon

Riaz

Mahmood

Habib

2022

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Eco-linguistics is a thriving research field which integrates the language-environment nexus in an interdisciplinary array of dimensions. Nevertheless, the linguistic analysis of ecopoetics in Pakistani context is an underexplored domain of inquiry. The present research scrutinises the linguistic pattern of literary environmental text, which employs the poetic register to deal with the subject of the human-nature interface, and the construction of ecocritical framing within its specific context. The poem, The Arrival of Monsoon (1985) by Taufiq Rafat, is selected as it fulfills Buell (1995)'s criteria of 'Environmental Text'. The poem is analysed first in terms of processes and circumstances using Halliday's model of transitivity analysis and then employing Arran Stibbe's concept of ecological framing to unveil its system of meanings. The results demonstrate the foregrounding of material actions and events in the text. The selected poem's text has an explicit emphasis on the existence and characteristics of Nature in comparison to human beings and this is achieved categorically with circumstances of location. These circumstances of location hold significant cultural images and thus help in assigning the text its ecosensitive stance while locating it within a specific cultural context i.e., Pakistan. The dualistic frame of Nature being both invigorating and dominating is manifested in the poem. The study will be significant to emerging writers, teachers and students who want to explore the themes of human-nature interaction in their writings.

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The Language of Cultural Ecopoetics: A Linguistic Articulation of Ecological Framing in The Arrival of Monsoon

Riaz

Mahmood

Habib

2022

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“…With its strong disciplinary home in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, ecolinguistics generates a range of scholarship investigating the take-up of key ecological "parameters such as interrelationships, environment and diversity" (Fill & Mühlhäusler, 2001, p. 1). Fill and Mühlhäusler's landmark 2001 Ecolinguistics Reader provided an important early collection of this scholarship, and Zhou (2021) and Zhang (2022) share useful overviews of recent developments in ecolinguistic studies generally.…”

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Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

Brown¹

2022

EHA

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The fiftieth anniversary of Haugen’s pioneering publication on the ecology of language provides an ideal opportunity to reflect on some of the promising new trends within recent research on multilingual education that centers linguistic ecology. The research explored in this article takes up linguistic ecology as a primary lens to understand a range of linguistic phenomena, particularly in contexts of dynamic change within the focus community. This article highlights three developments within linguistic ecology research over the last fifteen years that reflect the continuing relevance and contributions of this framework for multilingual education: (1) the focus on higher education, (2) translanguaging, and (3) rights and sustainability. The first section provides an overview of the defining aspects of linguistic ecology – its holism and dynamism – as well as foundational aspects of the ecology of language research in education and concludes with prospects for future research.

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Exploring the role of first language in ecological awareness and communication across Pakistan: A mixed method study

Rafi,

Fox

2024

Language Sciences

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The year’s work in ecolinguistics 2021

Cited by 6 publications

References 57 publications

The Language of Cultural Ecopoetics: A Linguistic Articulation of Ecological Framing in The Arrival of Monsoon

The Language of Cultural Ecopoetics: A Linguistic Articulation of Ecological Framing in The Arrival of Monsoon

Linguistic ecology and multilingual education

Exploring the role of first language in ecological awareness and communication across Pakistan: A mixed method study

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