Journal of world languages最新文献_第6页

Five themes for ecostylistics 生态文体学的五大主题

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0026

A. Goatly

{"title":"Five themes for ecostylistics","authors":"A. Goatly","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2022-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fundamentally, meaning is organized along two dimensions, similarity and contiguity, corresponding to two areas of the brain primarily responsible for language processing, Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area, respectively. Modern culture has tended to overemphasize the similarity dimension through money/commodification in capitalism, and mathematics in science, with disastrous ecological consequences. Ecostylistics can celebrate and analyze themes and linguistic patterns of poetry and novels which challenge this overemphasis. Five such themes are suggested in this article. To counter overemphasis on similarity (1) individuation. To celebrate Broca’s area’s contiguity dimension (2) dynamic process, and (3) interrelatedness and communication with the natural world. However, concentration on local contiguities of time, manifest in the contemporary English-speaking novel, distracts from the global contiguities of (4) long-term ecological change. (5) The two dimensions are also manifest in metaphor, which challenges conventional similarity-based classification, and narrative, which expands the contiguity dimension beyond the clause. These themes are illustrated by poetic examples from Wordsworth and Edward Thomas, and detailed analysis of the following texts: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” and “Nature is a Heraclitean Fire”; Edward Thomas’s “The Word”, Alice Oswald’s “Sonnet” and “Birdsong for Two Voices”, and, returning to a text whose analysis by Michael Halliday was seminal for Stylistics, William Golding’s The Inheritors. Transitivity analysis within the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar is used throughout, and connections are made with quantum physics, Daoism, and other process philosophies.","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"1 1","pages":"443 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79827946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Developing e-reading pedagogies informed by research 发展电子阅读教学法的研究

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2021-0024

Ángel Garralda Ortega, Abel Hon Man Cheung, Michelle Yuen-shan Fong

{"title":"Developing e-reading pedagogies informed by research","authors":"Ángel Garralda Ortega, Abel Hon Man Cheung, Michelle Yuen-shan Fong","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2021-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2021-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores whether the reading comprehension of complex texts can be facilitated through an online reading platform designed for novice readers with English proficiencies below the Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) threshold. We hypothesize that computer-mediated text glosses could speed up lower-level processing in the readers’ working memory and thus enhance the overall comprehension of complex texts for study purposes. We tested 46 participants with estimated International English Language Testing System (IELTS) reading scores between 5 and 5.5, sampled from a pool of 1,406 students who took a diagnostic reading test and 631 students who completed a survey on their reading practices. Our participants were randomly assigned to read one General Reading IELTS text and one Academic Reading IELTS text, either on an on-screen Word file or on the e-reading platform with the glossing tool. The tests were video-recorded and the participants completed post-test interviews for further qualitative analysis. While the Mixed-model ANOVA did not suggest an interaction effect between the two language proficiency categories and the mode in which the tests were administered, it revealed a main effect on the use of online reading (p < 0.01) across the 5–5.5 IELTS spectrum, indicating that the electronic glosses enhanced reading comprehension. Implications for further research and pedagogy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89964730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

"I don't think education is the answer": A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of plastics discourses in the UK. “我不认为教育是答案”:英国塑料语篇的语料库辅助生态语言学分析。

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-15 eCollection Date: 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0017

Emma Franklin, Joanna Gavins, Seth Mehl

{"title":"\"I don't think education is the answer\": A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of plastics discourses in the UK.","authors":"Emma Franklin, Joanna Gavins, Seth Mehl","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2022-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ecosystems around the world are becoming engulfed in single-use plastics, the majority of which come from plastic packaging. Reusable plastic packaging systems have been proposed in response to this plastic waste crisis, but uptake of such systems in the UK is still very low. This article draws on a thematic corpus of 5.6 million words of UK English around plastics, packaging, reuse, and recycling to examine consumer attitudes towards plastic (re)use. Utilizing methods and insights from ecolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this article assesses to what degree consumer language differs from that of public-facing bodies such as supermarkets and government entities. A predefined ecosophy, prioritizing protection, rights, systems thinking, and fairness, is used to not only critically evaluate narratives in plastics discourse but also to recommend strategies for more effective and ecologically beneficial communications around plastics and reuse. This article recommends the adoption of ecosophy in multidisciplinary project teams, and argues that ecosophies are conducive to transparent and reproducible discourse analysis. The analysis also suggests that in order to make meaningful change in packaging reuse behaviors, it is highly likely that deeply ingrained cultural stories around power, rights, and responsibilities will need to be directly challenged.</p>","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"8 2","pages":"284-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9563323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40437591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

A contrastive ecological discourse analysis of the General Debate statements by the US and China at the United Nations General Assembly (2017–2020) 中美在联合国大会一般性辩论发言的生态话语对比分析(2017-2020)

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0014

Chengming Ma, W. He

引用次数: 4

Ecolinguistics: History, today, and tomorrow 生态语言学:历史、今天和明天

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0008

H. Penz, A. Fill

{"title":"Ecolinguistics: History, today, and tomorrow","authors":"H. Penz, A. Fill","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the concept of ecology was first applied to language over 50 years ago, the field of ecolinguistics has developed into a thriving branch of linguistics that is more than ever closer to the pressing issues of our time. This article aims to trace the historical development of ecolinguistics, discusses the main trends in current research, and provides a brief projection of potential future developments. The first part includes an overview of research connected to Einar Haugen’s article “Ecology of Language”, published in 1972, which focuses on the interaction between languages in multilingual contexts. A large part of the article is then devoted to the role of language in dealing with environmental problems (e.g. aggravating or solving them), which is the biological understanding of ecology in the study of language inspired by Halliday’s 1990 talk “New Ways of Meaning: The Challenge to Applied Linguistics”. Ecolinguistics will certainly have an interesting future. It will take up topics such as climate change, which surprisingly has largely been excluded from ecolinguistic research until recently. Other topics that need to be dealt with are the negative effects of tourism, the migration of human, plant, and animal populations. Ecolinguists, in the future, will also expand their methodology towards multimodal research and study how non-European languages present the ‘environment’, or rather ‘con-vironment’.","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"30 1","pages":"232 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87488041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 9

Eco-critical language awareness for English language teaching (ELT): Promoting justice, wellbeing, and sustainability in the classroom 英语教学中的生态批判语言意识:促进课堂公正、福祉和可持续性

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0023

Marco A. Micalay-Hurtado, Robert Poole

{"title":"Eco-critical language awareness for English language teaching (ELT): Promoting justice, wellbeing, and sustainability in the classroom","authors":"Marco A. Micalay-Hurtado, Robert Poole","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2022-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention to power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert that a CLA approach to English language teaching (ELT) which does not recognize and account for the urgency of climate change and its myriad effects on present and future generations of learners is flawed. It is time ELT extends a critical lens to the role that our practices and pedagogies serve in the (re)production of attitudes, ideologies, identities, and actions which contribute to ecological degradation and climate crisis while also engaging how we may advance ecological wellbeing and sustainability. This article outlines the rationale for this ecolinguistics-informed CLA (eco-CLA) approach to English language instruction by asserting the compatibility of ecolinguistics and CLA and the intersection of social, linguistic, and environmental justice. It then presents and discusses five principles for an eco-CLA approach to ELT that can be applied to a range of language learning contexts. Finally, it demonstrates how these principles can be operationalized within ELT by presenting a series of instructional activities.","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"54 1","pages":"371 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74210997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

“I never get a thing that ain’t been used”: A diachronic corpus-based study of second-hand consumption “我从来没有得到过没有用过的东西”:一项基于二手消费的历时性研究

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0015

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

引用次数: 2

Practical applications of ecolinguistics 生态语言学的实际应用

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0034

Meng Huat Chau, G. Jacobs

引用次数: 0

Language teachers as eco-activists: From talking the talk to walking the walk 语言教师作为生态活动家:从说到做

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0005

A. Maley

{"title":"Language teachers as eco-activists: From talking the talk to walking the walk","authors":"A. Maley","doi":"10.1515/jwl-2022-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The climate crisis has received a great deal of attention of late, yet its root causes go back to the last century and beyond. Also going back many years have been efforts to address the roots of the climate crisis. These efforts include the work of language teachers to research, create, trial, and share materials and pedagogical strategies for educating and mobilizing teachers, students, and other stakeholders to address the beliefs and practices that have led our species to the precipice of irredeemable disaster. This article seeks to serve as an annotated repository of works and collective wisdom of the author and colleagues, both near and far, as to how language teaching can accomplish its joint tasks of both facilitating student enjoyment of and expertise in their languages, and at the same time engaging students in fulfilling their responsibility as citizens of their home country and the world, a responsibility that has only grown more urgent due to the climate crisis. This repository is the result of 50 years of research, not with blinded control groups and statistical analysis (valuable though those methods can be), but of naturalistic investigation. The repository divides into three sections: Inspiration, Information, and Implementation. Strategies and ways that teachers have found useful for growing their own and their students’ knowledge of the causes of and possible solutions to the climate crisis are considered. The article ends with a poem by the author which addresses the important question of the role of the teacher in the classroom and beyond.","PeriodicalId":93793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of world languages","volume":"1 1","pages":"346 - 370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90544719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma & Isaac N. Mwinlaaru (eds.). 2022. Systemic functional insights on language and linguistics. Singapore: Springer, xxii+313pp. ISBN: 978-981-16-8712-9 (hbk).

Journal of world languages Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI: 10.1515/jwl-2022-0022

Yingchen Yu

引用次数: 0