Abstract
Language research is closely related with eco literature and cultural studies, while a dilema in the study of eco literature and cultural theory is the need for a proper linguistic theory as its foundation. Ecolinguistics emphasizes the two-way interactions both between language and environment and between language and the world, and takes language as the intermedia between nature and culture, and put the environment of language into the complexity of nature, socity and psychological elements. Therefore, ecolinguisitics can transcend the one-way determinism between the world and language on the one hand and the either-or dualism of the naturalness and artbitrariniess of language, and it can then become a eco-dialectical theory with rich "parameters." Ecolinguistics can help us better understand the relationship between the text and the world, nature and culture, natural ecology and socio-spiritual ecology, and therefore it may play an important role in the construction of foudnational linguistic theory for contemporary ecological literature and culture studies.
First Page
182
Last Page
190
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Kuiying. 2014. "Ecolinguistics and the Foundational Construction of Language Theory for Contemporary Ecological Literary and Cultural Studies." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (4): pp.182-190. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss4/5
