Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2020, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (2): 112-119.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2020.02.015

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Ecological Study of Language and Two Turns in Ecolinguistics

ZHAO Chang-you1,2, LIU Cheng-yu1   

  1. (1. College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China; 2. School of Foreign Languages, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China)
  • Received:2019-07-20 Revised:2019-07-20 Online:2020-03-25 Published:2020-04-02
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Abstract: Ecolinguistics embarked on the ecological study of language in which the relationship between language and its context is metaphorized as the relationship between organisms and their environment and it was then studied through binary analysis. Since then, ecolinguistics has undergone a discursive turn which emphasizes the ecological discourse analysis of interactions between humans, nonhuman organisms, language and environment and it starts its diversified development. In recent years, this discipline has witnessed a cognitive turn which aims to foster and improve people's ecological awareness, trigger their ecological behaviors and promote ecological practices and it endeavors to construct a harmonious and unified analytical framework and finally reaches the destination of unifying knowing and doing. Based on its development, future research of ecolinguistics is envisaged from six dimensions.

Key words: ecolinguistics, ecological study of language, discursive turn, cognitive turn

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