The Return ofLanguaging

Toward a new ecolinguistics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5776006
AutoresStephen J Cowley (0000-0002-5374-9889, University of Southern Denmark, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas483-512
Data de publicação2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChinese Semiotic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2198-9605 • E-ISSN: 2198-9613
EditoraDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/css-2019-0027
OpenAlexW2989947306
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas78

Linguistics is currently being transformed. In relating this to the return of languaging, I link the concept's genealogy with all of its major applications. Crucially, human understanding becomes social and subjective and, thus, incompatible with linguistic theories that focus on individual knowledge of entities like languages, usage or forms of language use. As in Elizabethan times, understanding is part of socially organized practice. In leaving behind linguistic "forms," languaging shapes an entangled meshwork that links living, observing, and social action. In welcoming the return of long-suppressed ideas, I focus on their implications for evolution, history, and human embodiment. In so doing, I hold that each person's practical experience links a living subject with what can be, has been, and should be said. Finally, I argue that one can use the concept of languaging to build awareness that favors collective modes of action that are directed within the living world, the bio-ecology. By tracing social organization to embodied expression, a new ecolinguistics can aim to think on behalf of the world

EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching