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Tawny grammar : essays
\"Two ... essays, \"Tawny grammar\" and \"Good, wild, sacred,\" serve to offer an autobiographical framework for Gary Snyder's long work as a poet, environmentalist, and a leader of the Buddhist community in North America\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Examining the contribution of taboos (Amazilo) towards eco-beneficial practices: Evidence from Ndebele linguistic wisdom
Although environmental conservation has emerged as a prominent concern among researchers globally, much interest has been confined to the natural sciences. In this study, we deploy the ecolinguistics framework to examine the contribution of taboos towards an eco-beneficial ecosophy among the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe. Drawing on purposefully selected taboos from two anthologies of Ndebele oral literature, complemented by authors’ intuitions, our findings reveal that the Ndebele language is imbued with ecocentric wisdom that is encoded in taboos. These environmental taboos warn against the unsustainable exploitation of fauna and flora species as well as the contamination or desecration of water sources. Additionally, needless destruction and degradation of land are discouraged by some taboos. These findings suggest that the Ndebele people’s harmonious relationship and co-existence with their natural environment derive from age-old wisdom that is embedded in their linguistic system as part of their environmental policy, laws and ethics. Contrary to enduring colonial ideologies that have sought to portray indigenous African languages as incapable of addressing modern problems associated with climate change and other anthropogenic activities, we show that languages such as Ndebele evince the positive environmental stewardship and disposition that have been part of African communities since time immemorial.
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Counter-desecration : a glossary for writing within the anthropocene
\"This book serves as a collectively generated (re)invented sourcebook-a glossary on the edge of extinction, a language for landscapes under threat. This glossary compiles terms (many borrowed, invented, recast) that might help us configure or elaborate our engagements with place. Each entry is a sketch, a notion, an opening\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism
In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth – humans communicate using language to accomplish social goals. In this Keynote, we urge cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to more fully embrace sociolinguistic and sociocultural experiences as part of their theoretical and empirical purview. To this end, we review theoretical antecedents of such approaches, and offer a new framework – the Systems Framework of Bilingualism – that we hope will be useful in this regard. We conclude with new questions to nudge our discipline towards a more nuanced, inclusive, and socially-informed scientific understanding of multilingual experience. We hope to engage a wide array of researchers united under the broad umbrella of multilingualism (e.g., researchers in neurocognition, sociolinguistics, and applied scientists).
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Re-evoking absent people: what languaging implies for radical embodiment
examines how languaging enacts human social intelligence. Turning from linguistic tradition, we reduce language to neither abstracta nor form. Rather, as human activity, languaging enables people to co-act as they direct attention within what Margolis (2010b; 2016) calls an enlanguaged world. Given their embodiment, people use languaging to evoke absent others in a flow of action, feeling, judgment, and attitudes. Although based on organism-environment coupling, languaging is also activity that re-evokes the absent. In an enlanguaged world, people use emplaced activity as part of practices, events, situations, artifacts, and so on. Hence, people reach beyond the body as they re-evoke the absent by languaging or, by definition, “activity in which wordings play a part.” As we suggest, absent people are evoked by
. In common domains (e.g. a school), social habits give rise to dispositions during a history of co-acting that, later, can re-evoke absent others and past selves. Having begun with a literary example, we later turn to a detailed case study to show
a narrator brings feeling to languaging (in this case, frustration) as she re-evokes other people as they are for her. In conclusion, we suggest that radical embodiment needs to be extended to include how human practices link coupling with social intelligence as people channel what they do with the help of languaging.
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Languaging and Practices: Intimations of a Singular Ontology
The paper rejects both mentalism and reduction of the trait of Language (capital L) to linguistic
. What is termed
is replaced by tracing wordings to practices that unite metabolism, coordinative activity and linguistic history. Like other partly cultural, partly natural traits (e.g. grazing), languaging enacts
(Sebeok 1988). In Yu’s (2021) terms, it extends how
informs morphogenesis, agency, sensing and acting. Having challenged lingualism, one deflates reports of experience. Appeal to practices and
(not
) posit linguistic ‘objects’ or, in Sellars’s terms, versions of the Myth of the Given. With Sellars, therefore, I rethink the analytic/synthetic divide around the normative power of languaging. On such a view, practices, nonhumans and humans co-evolve with manifest and scientific modes of acting that are constituted by unknowable singular ontology. Knowing is inextricable from languaging and how the resources of cultural modelling are rendered and grasped by using the (simplexifying) powers of living human beings.
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Linguistic ecocide and environmental collapse in the suppression of Uzbek language
This article examines how Soviet-era linguistic suppression in Uzbekistan contributed to environmental degradation across Central Asia, as exemplified by the Aral Sea disaster. It argues that this suppression constituted epistemic displacement, dismantling traditional systems of ecological knowledge and replacing adaptive, local management with extractive, centralised models. More than three decades after independence, Uzbekistan’s environmental governance remains tied to a colonial linguistic framework that restricts community participation and undermines ecological resilience. Through historical discourse analysis, comparative case studies, and critical ecolinguistic theory, the study demonstrates that reintegrating Uzbek ecological vocabulary into law, education, and policy is essential for sustainable reform. It concludes that linguistic justice is a fundamental condition for fair and effective environmental restoration.
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Appraisal patterns used on the kalimantan tourism website: An ecolinguistics perspective
The issue of ecology in the tourism sector has received considerable critical attention. Despite the persuasive strategies in tourism that dominate the academic discussion, this paper takes a different viewpoint by investigating linguistic strategies that evaluate a tourism website from an ecolinguistic viewpoint. Hence, the major objective of this paper is to investigate the ideology underlying the appraisal patterns contained in the Kalimantan tourism texts from an ecolinguistic perspective. Data for this research were collected from the Kalimantan official tourism website, analysing its keywords by AntConc 4.0, which were examined qualitatively from its concordance lines. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to obtain the appraisal patterns framework as the guidelines. The findings demonstrate that appraisal patterns are manifested through attitude and graduation systems that constitute positive feelings of the readers' happiness and satisfaction due to the quality and quantity of the Kalimantan environment. Therefore, the ideology reflected in the appraisal patterns is the marketization of natural richness and endangerment. The analysis concludes that the purr-words exploited in tourism promotion articulate an ambivalent discourse. The website promotes natural richness to raise people's awareness of Kalimantan's role as the world's lungs, but at the same time, it also encourages the objectification and commodification of nature in the tourism sector. This work contributes to ecolinguistics by investigating non-ecological data.
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