Current trends and developments in ecolinguistics
This article analyzes new trends in ecolinguistics and compares Russian ecolinguis-tic studies with international. Particular attention is paid to new theoretical and methodological approaches that have been elaborated and presented for the study of language in foreign publications, particularly, in special issue of journal "Language Sciences". It is emphasized that distinctive feature of recent studies in ecolinguistics is a reconsideration of theory and nature of language from the perspective of the new ecological paradigm. In this regard, modern ecolinguists: 1) revise previous linguistic traditions that hypostatize language as an abstract, idealized and autonomous system and 2) postulate the need to consider language as a heteronomous system that depend on natural environment, culture, and cognitive processes. It is also emphasized that foreign researches are characterized by a variety of general theoretical grounds that include ecological psychology, semiotics, theory of distributed cognition, dynamical systems theory and many other systems approaches that were developed in different fields of science. Therefore, this article shows that current ecolinguistic studies stand for out-and-out pragmatic turn, antireductionism, systems approach and interdisciplinarity.
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эколингвистика, языковая экология, теории языка, междисциплинарность в лингвистике, ecolinguistics, language ecology, theories of language, interdisciplinary in linguisticsAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Sukhoverkhov A.V. | Kuban State Agrarian University (Krasnodar) | sukhoverkhov.a@kubsau.ru |
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