Ecolinguistics

EcolinguisticsBy

Komang Satya Permadi

Introduction Branches

Issues

Ecolinguistics

Microlinguistics

• Study of the structure of a language system where no complementary issues are referred to

• The structures of a system are identified, described, and explained to include levels like phonology, morphology, and syntax

Macrolinguistics

• Study to understand the role of the individual within the system of language, dealing with issues that why the individual relates to a particular science, and how they relates to this science

• Overlapping interests from the study of language (Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, biolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and ecolinguistics)

EcolinguisticsIntroduction


Language

Wide range of concepts

Aspect of human

life

Ecolinguistics• study of language according to the environment it is used in (Derni, 2008)


Ecolinguistics

Language

Ecology

Eco-Critical

Discourse Analysis

EcolinguisticsBranches

Eco-critical discourse analysis • showing correlations in

discourse between language and ecological phenomena

texts or documents about the environment

EcolinguisticsEco-Critical Discourse Analysis

Newspaper• Environmental contaminations that occur in

certain places

Advertisement • Go green plastic bag

Politic• Leadership of Joko Widodo who establish a

park near Pluit Lake, North Jakarta


Awareness of how language can contribute to an irresponsible use of nature contribute to the solution of environmental problems

Three types of relations that are to be considered in an eco-discourse analysis

Bundsgaard and Steffensen (2000) in Derni (2008)

Eco-Critical

Discourse

Analysis

Inter-relatio

ns

extra-relatio

ns

Intra-relatio

ns

Relations within the individuality

Between an individuality and other individualities of the same kind or

species

Between an individuality and other individualities of the other kind or species


Inter-textual

reference

• linguistic units to natural environment,

Intra-textual

reference

• that is the way these units are structured and the rules for their combination

Extra-textual

reference• encounters linguistic choices,

Bang and Døør (1990) in Derni (2008) elaborates Triple Model of Reference to globalize the referential parts of a text



Inter-textual reference

Intra-textual reference

Extra-textual

reference

Language ecology is the study of interactions between any given language and its environment (Haugen, 1970 in Kramsch and

Steffensen, 2008)

Environmental interactions occur with the extra-relations of

language and environment.

EcolinguisticsLanguage Ecology

Ecolinguistics/Language Ecology is a new branch of linguistics which

investigates the role of language in the development and possible solution of

ecological and environmental problems (Fill, 1993 in Al-Gayoni,

2012)

study of preservation of linguistic diversity

EcolinguisticsLanguage Ecology

EcolinguisticsIssues

Environment

Green HouseEffect,

Earthquake, etc

Social and Natural life.Environmental Diversity Changes

Norms, culture and existence of

linguistic diversity

Existence of minority language

Languages will rapidly dying out

Indonesia has known this study, some researcher in Indonesia used ecolinguistics to find out and to conserve the local language

Mühlhäusler, 2002


Takengon, Aceh Tengah• 128 villages around a lake which

were recorded at the earlier time

• This ecological change made some of the villages merging each other and language change happened

• The young generations do not know the name of the village since the civilization immigrated to other village around the lake that causes by Earthquakes, tsunamis, and the overflowing

• Word smong (smong is huge tidal waves) which is called tsunami nowadays

Al-Gayoni, 2008


Bali

• Some words in Bahasa Bali which are not currently used by some Balinese people

Sudeva, 2009

Unused WordsGenerally Used

WordsEnglish

1 Kelambi Baju Shirt

2 Kole Tiang I

3 Nanang, Pan Bapak Father

4 Luweng Nak Luh Girl

5 Taban Bale Bed


Bali

• Continued…

Unused WordsGenerally Used

WordsEnglish

6 Bulakan Kelebutan Mata Air

7 Plesir Melali Hang out

8 Ngidu Ngangetin badan

Body Warming

in kitchen

fireplace

9 Tenggala Bajak Plow

1

0Empelan Dam Dam

Sudeva, 2009

EcolinguisticsIssues in Indonesia

Traditional Medicinal Plants in Bali

Rasna & Binawati, 2012

• There are 119 types of traditional medicinal plants in Bali to cure diseases of children according to Lontar Rare Usada

• 202 from 225 Balinese adolescents (90%) do not know 56 species of medicinal plants for the child diseases, such as; padang gulung, wong papah, akar jail, bungkak samsam, don ketepeng, getah layah lambo, getah amplas, ketan gajih, sanggalangit, bintanu, and many more.

• This unawareness, was caused by modern medicine that will be resulted weaker believe to traditional medicine.

EcolinguisticsConclusion

• Language is part of the environment where we live, it is to be speculated in accordance with this environment. And as language enters into almost every aspect of human life, many disciplines dealing with various aspects of human life can be used in correspondence with linguistic study.

• The study of language is relevant to many other fields of inquiry. Ecolinguistics is the study of language according to the environment it is used in (Derni, 2008).

• Ecolinguistics also investigates the role of language in the development and possible solution of ecological and environmental problems (Fill, 1993 in Al-Gayoni, 2012:28). In the other words ecolinguistics is a study of preservation of linguistic diversity.

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