Ecolinguística: A história de uma ideia verde para o estudo da linguagem

• Autor(a) principal: Fill, Alwin
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ecolinguística
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/9921
• topic: História da ecolinguística; Antropocentrismo; Ecologia linguística.; History of ecolinguistics; Anthropocentrism; language ecologies.

This article sketches the history of ecolinguistics, showing that its seed were already in authors such as Humboldt, Sapir and Whorf. The first investigator to associate ‘language’ and ‘ecology’ was Voegelin and collaborators. But, the first to suggest the use of the ecology metaphor in language studies was Einar Haugen, who was followed by William Makey, Norman Denison and Harald Haarmann. The article also shows that the term ‘ecolinguistics’ was first used in print in 1976, by Henri Gobard, and, a little later, by Kurt Salzinzer, in 1979, and by Claude Hagège in 1985. Further, three branches of ecolinguistics emerging (linguistic ecology, ecology of language, and ecology of languages). Among the other themes investigated by ecolinguistics we find anthropocentrism, sometimes hidden under euphemism. Ecolinguistics is relatively consolidated, and its future is promising, although ecolinguists must show how it can contribute to rescue endangered languages as well as how to do “transdiciplinary” researches. Which methods to use. In the end, Haugen’s proposal has been shown to be very fruitful.