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Author : Werner Enninger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015014228277
Author : Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500838
It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.
Author : Arran Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317511908
The increasingly rapid destruction of the ecological systems that support life is calling into question some of the fundamental stories that we live by: stories of unlimited economic growth, of consumerism, progress, individualism, success, and the human domination of nature. Ecolinguistics shows how linguistic analysis can help reveal the stories we live by, open them up to question, and contribute to the search for new stories. Bringing together the latest ecolinguistic studies with new theoretical insights and practical analyses, this book charts a new course for ecolinguistics as an engaged form of critical enquiry. Featuring: A framework for understanding the theory of ecolinguistics and applying it practically in real life; Exploration of diverse topics from consumerism in lifestyle magazines to Japanese nature haiku; A comprehensive glossary giving concise descriptions of the linguistic terms used in the book; Discourse analysis of a wide range of texts including newspapers, magazines, advertisements, films, nonfiction books, and visual images. This is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the areas of Discourse Analysis and Language and Ecology.
Author : Einar Ingvald Haugen,Anwar S. Dil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : LCCN:73183888
Author : Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041356
This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.
Author : Arran Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000293654
Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By is a ground-breaking book which reveals the stories that underpin unequal and unsustainable societies and searches for inspirational forms of language that can help rebuild a kinder, more ecological world. This new edition has been updated and expanded to bring together the latest ecolinguistic studies with new theoretical insights and practical analyses. The book presents a theoretical framework and practical tools for analysing the key texts which shape the society we live in. The theory is illustrated through examples, including the representation of environmental refugees in the media; the construction of the selfish consumer in economics textbooks; the parallels between climate change denial and coronavirus denial; the erasure of nature in the Sustainable Development Goals; creation myths and how they orient people towards the natural world; and inspirational forms of language in nature writing, Japanese haiku and Native American writing. This edition provides an updated theoretical framework, new example analyses, and an additional chapter on narratives. Accompanied by a free online course with videos, PowerPoints, notes and exercises (www.storiesweliveby.org.uk), as well as a comprehensive glossary, this is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the areas of Discourse Analysis, Environmental Studies and Communication Studies.
Author : Leo van Lier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402079122
In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This, then, aims to be a book that can be read by practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the main idea is that it should be readable and challenging at the same time.
Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134934881
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.
Author : Mark Garner
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3039100548
Mark Garner demonstrates how adopting an ecological perspective fundamentally changes our understanding of human language and calls into question such assumptions as language being rule-governed, or that it represents a distinctive form of knowledge.
Author : J.H. Leather,Jet van Dam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401703413
This volume emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. The studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory. It is of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals.
Author : Jørgen Christian Bang,Jørgen Døør
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000060961174
High level linguistic theory monograph looking at the interaction between language and the environment.
Author : Janet C.E. Watson,Jon C. Lovett,Roberta Morano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350184480
Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship between language and ecology is both symbiotic and spatially and temporally determined. This volume examines the expressions of, and threats and challenges to, this relationship in southern and eastern Arabia. Exploring the ways in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between people and their natural environment, this book presents an overview of the key threats and challenges, and introduces the methodologies used to investigate them. Across the chapters, case studies are presented dealing with language, gesture and ecology, the significance of naming, the role of narratives in the language–ecology relationship, and conservation and revitalisation of bio-cultural diversity in Arabia. Taking a multidisciplinary view, this book argues for the central role that language plays in facing the challenges and threats to bio-cultural diversity, and presents methods for the study of the language–nature relationship that can be applied globally.
Author : Rik De Busser,Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268730
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
Author : J.H. Leather,Jet van Dam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1402010176
While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.
Author : Alwin Fill,Peter Muhlhausler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826420756
Thirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and by using a multitude of methods and approaches. This reader contains important articles from all the different fields of ecolinguistics - a volume long overdue for a discipline now recognized as a significant contribution to variety within the subject.
