Prospects of Cognitive and Ecological Linguistics

Abstract

This article deals with the development of ecological linguistics as a new object of study in modern linguistics. It examines the peculiarities of language research approaches as an instrument of harmonious lifestyle of the people as well as an important means of social contact in the international research. The anthropocentric and eco-centric lines may be distinguished as competitive modes in the development of modern humanitarian sciences for the reason that they introduce different approaches to investigating processes and results of human activity. The subject of ecolinguistics is the interaction between language, man as a linguistic person and his environment. Language is considered as an integral component of the chain of relationships between man, society and nature. Special attention is paid to the notion “meaning” from the point of view of ecological linguistics. It is stressed that meaning is the link connecting the representations of interaction with the verbal and non-verbal objects in the mind of the person.

Speech communication in terms of cognition

“…It should seem to go back and quote W. Humboldt who wrote that language process cannot be compared with a simple transfer of material. In the process of communication, the listener, just like the speaker, must recreate it by means of their inner strength, and everything that they perceive is reduced only to a stimulus that causes identical phenomena (Prihodko & Galaidin, 2018).…”

“…It is understood as every socially significant act of an individual, which is considered as a single implementation of a program created by predecessors and inherited by individuals in the learning process. So, behind the acts of communication there is a text as a result of previous acts of communication, and in general, sociality arises through the symbolic design of typified situations of collective action with a fixed number of participants and with an individual distribution of subprograms as a part of a holistic program of collective action (Pesina et al, 2021;Prihodko & Galaidin, 2018).…”