In this article we do two things: in the first half, we trace the emergence and development of
ecological linguistics, or ecolinguistics, from the early 1970s. Having contrasted the …

Einar Haugen is generally regarded as the founding father of 'language ecology'or 'ecology
of language'. In his classic 1971 paper, he suggested that “[l] anguage ecology may be …

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as
a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated …

This paper draws on complexity theory and post-modern sociolinguistics to explore how an
ecological approach to language data can illuminate aspects of language use in multilingual …

Ecolinguistics, or Language Ecology, was originally defined in 1972 by the Norwegian
linguist Einar Haugen as “the study of interactions between any given language and its …

The last 50 years have witnessed ecolinguistics come into bloom as a mature domain. This
paper aims to examine the half-century development of ecolinguistics by reviewing its …

This article proposes a new approach to ecolinguistic studies we have called Harmonious
Discourse Analysis (HDA). It represents an attempt to diversify the study of ecolinguistics by …

In this article, we discuss the current status of ecolinguistics and key issues in the field
regarding the positioning of ecolinguistics, and the research objects, aims and …

Our aim and knowledge-constitutive interest is to identify some central aspects of an
ecological theory of language. In our understanding of building an integrative ecological …

The paper asks how languaging and language influence the world of the living. Extending
Clements and Shelford (1939), the bio-ecology is redefined as the domain of plant–animal …