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Recent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in
on cognition, verbal choices and performance. (...) [and] have
provided interesting results, but which often veer towards quantity
rather than quality findings. The new reality, however, requires
new directions that move towards a humanism that is rooted in
holism, stressing that a living organism needs to refocus in order
to see the self as a part of a vast ecosystem. Dr Izabela Dixon,
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland This volume is a
collection of eight chapters by different authors focusing on
ecolinguistics. It is preceded by a preface (..) underlin[ing] the
presence of ecolinguistics as a newly-born linguistic theory and
practice, something that explains the mosaic of content and method
in the various chapters, with a more coherent approach being the
aim for future research. Prof. Harald Ulland, Bergen University,
Norway
In the volume, to locate the science of language and communication
in the most recent philosophical and methodological context that
science offers today, we have proposed reconciling two avenues of
the scientific process, i.e. the "third-person
observation-experiment-algorithm method being the traditional
method of doing science; and the inner, first-person insights of
contemplative science, in a sense of phenomenological flanerie
through unexplored cultural landscapes". The present book targets
research addressing the phenomenological aspect of communication
and the methodology of linguistic research. The volume may be of
interest to linguistic scholars, cultural linguists, semioticians,
interdisciplinary scholars, and students of the humanities and
cultural/social specialisations.
This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational
processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only
concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with
its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language
and communication, probes deep into the core of not only modern
linguistics but modern science in general, while relating to
conceptions of the world as well as to the scientific method
itself. Thus, when ecological thinking is applied to science, it
eventually will incite a methodological and philosophical
rethinking. This study reports the fundamental shifts occurring
after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences
and Humanities. The substance of various qualities, from the very
dense and tangible, to subtle mental or cognitive non-matter,
becomes an ecosystem for human language on both a very direct,
material plane, as well as on the non-material plane. In fact,
human language, as perceived by an ecologically-minded linguist
today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of
other life processes.
This volume proposes a new, post-Newtonian alley in modern language
and communication studies. The new linguistics receives here the
label ecolinguistics, as the conceptual-terminological field
founded on the "ecological" metaphor seems optimal to formulate the
thesis of human language being a life process, and involving a
repertoire of ecosystemic, not exclusively cognitive or social,
parameters. Communicators are living systems and as such they
transpersonally co-build momentary meanings and communicational
senses together with the rest of the communication field. The
communication apparatus which is phylogenetically present in humans
includes both the cognitive modalities and the noncognitive
communication modalities. The ecolinguistic paradigm in modern
linguistics offers new theoretical departure models for educational
programs, for psychological/therapeutic interventions, or for
self-exploratory and self-educational undertakings of a human
communicator.
This volume is a collection of texts authored by an international
team of linguistic scholars who provide their response to the
concept of 21st century holism in language studies. The expertise
of its contributors is reflected in the thematic scope of the book;
it discusses topics such as the concept of harmony in interpersonal
communication, semiotic and cultural phenomena handled by discourse
analysis, selected aspects of religious discourse, and the study of
proverbs or educational processes, to name but a few. 21st century
holism embraces a solid theoretical base in post-Newtonian physics
(quantum theory in particular), and departs from materialistic and
atomistic perspectives based on Darwinism or cognitivism, however
tempted we may be to allow the inertia of these in Western science
and culture. Once a scholar decides to shift their paradigmatic
perspective, thinking style, and research methodology, they start
to co-build a collective mental representation herein referred to
as 'the culture of consciousness'.
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