Lexicogrammar and ecolinguistics
Lexicogrammar (mis-)represents the ‘natural’ world through original metaphors, disputed terms, affective terms, conventional metaphors and conventional lexis. More important, the typical transitive material process clause, reflecting canonical event structure, marginalizes nature as part of the sett...
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ftlingnanuniv:oai:commons.ln.edu.hk:sw_master-7776 2023-05-15T13:16:04+02:00 Lexicogrammar and ecolinguistics GOATLY, Andrew Peter 2017-01-01T08:00:00Z https://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6708 en eng Digital Commons @ Lingnan University https://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6708 Staff Publications text 2017 ftlingnanuniv 2022-01-30T18:28:50Z Lexicogrammar (mis-)represents the ‘natural’ world through original metaphors, disputed terms, affective terms, conventional metaphors and conventional lexis. More important, the typical transitive material process clause, reflecting canonical event structure, marginalizes nature as part of the setting and represents nature as passive. Analysis of the environmental report State of the World 2012 reveals a semantics of grammar conforming to such a representation, except when nature provides for humans. By contrast, Wordsworth’s and Edward Thomas’s poetry represents nature as powerful actor-communicator and vital experience by means of ergative verbs, activation of experiences and tokens/existents and personification and coordination, problematizing the human/nature division. The Algonquin language Blackfoot’s more radical noncanonical event grammar emphasizes process and better reflects the insights of modern science. Text algonquin Digital Commons @ Lingnan University |
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Lexicogrammar (mis-)represents the ‘natural’ world through original metaphors, disputed terms, affective terms, conventional metaphors and conventional lexis. More important, the typical transitive material process clause, reflecting canonical event structure, marginalizes nature as part of the setting and represents nature as passive. Analysis of the environmental report State of the World 2012 reveals a semantics of grammar conforming to such a representation, except when nature provides for humans. By contrast, Wordsworth’s and Edward Thomas’s poetry represents nature as powerful actor-communicator and vital experience by means of ergative verbs, activation of experiences and tokens/existents and personification and coordination, problematizing the human/nature division. The Algonquin language Blackfoot’s more radical noncanonical event grammar emphasizes process and better reflects the insights of modern science. |
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