语言生态化研究及生态语言学的两个转向

Ecological Study of Language and Two Turns in Ecolinguistics

生态语言学肇始于语言的生态化研究,即将语言与其使用环境的关系比喻为生物与自然环境之间的关系,开始对它们之间关系的二元分析;继而经历了话语转向,即对人类、非人类生物体、语言与环境及其相互关系的生态话语分析,开启生态语言学多元化发展的历程;进而是认知转向,即通过生态语言学的研究培养和提高生态意识,触发生态行为,促进生态实践,构建和谐统一的研究框架,最终达成“知行合一”的终极目标。基于生态语言学的发展历程,可以从六个方面展望其未来研究。

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.