生态符号学学科建构探索

Exploration of Disciplinary Construction of Ecosemiotics

从20世纪下半叶开始,生态学的强劲发展引来了学科的泛化和生态学化,学界尝试将人文、社会、经济发展与生态可持续发展相结合,从生态的视角审视各种问题,生态符号学应运而生。目前,虽然相关研究备受关注,但关于生态符号学的许多基本概念仍不清楚,研究对象也不够明晰,与相近学科的区分尚不明显,学科地位难以确定。本文通过对既往成果的综览、梳理、评述,对相关基础性问题展开了探索性研究,力图回答有关学科建构的一些关键性问题:生态符号学的学科界定、学科定位、学科旨趣、学科基础、学科原则、学科应用等,并对生态符号学和语言学的关系、生态符号学对语言学研究的启示进行了深入的思考,强调生态符号学建立的必要性和可能性。

Since the latter half of the 20th century,the strong development of ecology has extensively exerted an ecological influence upon various disciplines. So ecosemiotics came into being when scholars via semiotics were dedicated to a comprehensive study of arts,social and economic development and ecological sustainable development,when examining various questions from an ecological perspective. So far,related research has attracted enough attention though,there is a want of clear definitions of basic concepts,research objects and the distinction between ecosemiotics and other related disciplines,which resulted in an ambiguous disciplinary position of ecosemiotics. By literature review of previous academic achievements,the paper,based on the research of the related fundamental questions,answers some of the most important questions about the construction of the discipline: disciplinary definition of ecosemiotics,its positioning,academic objectives and interests,disciplinary foundations,applications and construction rules. In addition,there is an in-depth discussion of the relationship between ecosemiotics and linguistics,and how it inspires linguistic research,while shedding light on the necessity and possibility of establishing ecosemiotics.