关键词: 国际语境; 生态语言学; 生态危机; 生态意识; 生态悖论; 儒学范式; 中国生态智慧

Abstract:

The establishment of ecolinguistics is of great academic significance in that it not only builds up the academic connection between linguistics and ecology by western ecolinguistic paradigms, but also guides the study of language to rethink the role that language may play in its interaction with the environment from the ecological perspective. However, the underlying duality of those western paradigms renders the conceptual, methodological, and philosophical paradoxes in terms of the linguistic and metaphorical views as well as the worldview of the discipline. Alternatively, a Confucian paradigm to Chinese ecolinguistics can be interpreted as four interrelated senses: the physical sense of “Daoist Nature”, the social sense of “harmony with diversity”, the aesthetic sense of “aesthetic beauty” and the ethical sense of “unity of heaven and man”. This relational paradigm can be of crucial ecological values in fostering ecological awareness. For it can grant moral, ethical and axiological values to ecolinguistics in the international context, compared with its western counterpart. western ecolinguistic paradigms can turn to the Confucian paradigm for the transcendence of the negative influence of dualism and thus better fulfillment of the ecological mission. However, the popularization of the Confucian paradigm at home and abroad is still confronted with major opportunities and challenges. Chinese ecolinguistic circles can continue various forms of Sino-western communication and cooperation by exploring the local and international expressions of China’s voice. In so doing, Chinese ecolinguists can make use of Chinese ecological wisdom to figure out the mutual ecological themes.

Keywords: ecolinguistics; international context; ecological crisis; ecological awareness; ecological paradoxes; Confucian paradigm; Chinese ecological wisdom