Linguistic Ecosystems and Sustainability: the Interaction of Language and Ecological Factors
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Ecolinguistic studies provide a basis for understanding the linguistic nature of the language and defining the cultural stereotype of its linguacultural potential. The linguistic environment that surrounds a person essentially means the communicative environment, which is directly related to natural and social factors. Linguistic environment can be considered as a place where social culture is formed as a factor influencing each individual. In essence, the relationship between language and environment, which is determined by communication, is related to the living conditions of the speakers of the language. Language is the most stable control tool of social consciousness, accompanies human activity in the natural environment and society, and therefore it should be given fundamental and strategic importance in society. Physiological and social language ecology ensures the harmonious existence of nature and language. Linguistic ecology is a metaphorical manifestation of biological ecology. The study of the factors affecting the ecological environment of linguistic factors is not only relevant from the scientific, but also from the social and cultural context. The functional area of languages is expanding rapidly as a result of technology and globalization. This process puts some languages in danger of extinction. Ecolinguistic research, including the study of changes in the ecological environment of a language, also identifies ways of preservation. This reason is one of the issues that make the topic relevant. The disappearance of the language is the disappearance of the culture of the society in which it is manifested. The topic is also relevant in terms of transmitting a sustainable language environment to future generations by studying the relationship between language and nature in depth. In the research work, the factors that shape the ecological environment of the language and their impact on the language are analyzed as a research field of ecolinguistics. At the same time, the impact of environmental factors on the nature of language and the ecological approach to linguistic factors, similar and different points are investigated taking into account the challenges, approach and classification of different linguists in this direction, the ideas of references are justified with examples. We consider the structured and systematic analysis of data to be a contribution to ecolinguistic research.
Source: CyberLeninK (CyberLeninka)
Authors: Pashayeva G., Musayeva I., Imamaliyeva G.
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949654757
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