Quo vadis ecolinguistics

Authors

  • Peter Mühlhäusler Linacre College University of Oxford and University of Adelaide

Abstract

The genre of this paper is aalpiri (Australian Western Desert languages for 'morning growl') and it spells out the reasons why have been less than happy with the way ecolinguistics has developed in recent years. In my opinion, ecolinguistics does not live up to the expectations of its founders and the whole enterprise is far less than the sum of its parts. Much of ecolinguistics is driven by ideology rather than rigid scholarly research and its efficacy leaves much to be desired. The title suggests that ecolinguists have to reflect on where they are going.

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Author Biography

Peter Mühlhäusler, Linacre College University of Oxford and University of Adelaide

O professor Peter Mühlhäusler é aposentado como Foundation Professor of Linguistics da Universidade de Adelaide, Austrália. Alemão de nascimento, estudou em Stellenbosch, Reading e na Australian National University. Lecionou na Universidade de Oxford. Suas principais áreas de interesse são: línguas crioulas e pidgins, línguas indígenas da Austrália, gramática dos pronomes e ecolinguística. Mühlhäusler é autor de um dos primeiros manuais de introdução à crioulística (Pidgin and creole linguistics, 1986), de dois dos primeiros livros sobre língua e meio ambiente: Greenspeak: A study of environmental discourse (1999), juntamente com Rom Harré e Jens Brockmeier, e Language of environment - Environment of language: A course in ecolinguistics, 2003). É coautor (com Stephen Wurm e Tyron Darrell) do monumental Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas (1996). Tem colaborado com grande parte das coletâneas de crioulística/pidginística e de ecolinguística. Ele está presente na grande antologia de ecolinguística organizada por Alwin Fill e Hermine Penz, intitulada Handbook of ecolinguistics (Routledge, 2017). ECO-REBEL já publicou dois artigos dele, em tradução portuguesa. Devido a suas pesquisas de campo nas ilhas de Norfolk, tem contribuído também com as etnociências, mais especificamente, com a etnoecologia linguística, ou seja, o estudo dos nomes para espécimes da flora e da fauna em comunidades tradicionais.

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2020-03-08

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Mühlhäusler, P. (2020). Quo vadis ecolinguistics. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 6(1), 05–23. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/29870

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

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