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

摘要：

西方生态语言学范式建立起了语言学和生态学的联系,引导人们审视语言对于生态环境的双重影响,具有交叉学科联系、终极环境关怀以及重大生态转向三大学科意义。西方经典生态语言学深受传统牛顿—笛卡尔式科学世界观的影响,其二元论范式在概念、方法和哲学方面存在三大悖论,呈现出价值中立、伦理弱化、道德弱化和美学缺席等显著特征。中国生态语言学的儒学范式以儒学生态智慧为哲学基础,可以包括“道法自然”“和而不同”“尽美尽善”和“知行合一”四重意义,这一关联论范式可以帮助提升人类生态意识。国际语境下儒学范式的推广仍面临一系列重大机遇和挑战,中国生态语言学可继续挖掘中国声音的“本土化”表达,打造贯通中西的国际化新概念、新表述。

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