For an ecological critical approach: socio linguistics in the shadow of climate change // Pour une approche critique écologique : la sociolinguistique a l’ombre du changement climatique
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https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/the_mouth.2893Abstract
This article wishes to comment on how sociolinguistics considers ecology and climate change and offers research axes and a case study to allow a deeper consideration. The discussion looks at some recent publications and then explores reasons for the delay, in the field of sociolinguistics, in incorporating ecological issues. Four axes for reflection are proposed: structural relativism, critical discourse analysis, a longer narrative timeframe, and materiality. They prompt a reorientation of research projects towards the inclusion of data from the environmental sciences, and to publishing of results in forums other than those of the humanities. These axes are then applied to a story about the relocation of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, told by the Exchange’s previous Chairman. This story, which has a biographical aspect, also involves considerations of Johannesburg’s geology, water, vegetation and the place and logic of the new business district, Sandton, to which the Exchange migrated.
Cet article propose une critique de la place que la sociolinguistique accorde à l’écologie et au changement climatique, et offre quelques axes de travail pour faciliter leur meilleure prise en compte. Passant en revue les récentes publications, la discussion explore les raisons pour lesquelles l’analyse sociolinguistique peine à incorporer l’écologie. Quatre axes de réflexion sont proposés : le relativisme structurel, l’analyse critique du discours, le temps long narratif et la matérialité. Ils impulsent une réorientation des projets de recherche vers l’inclusion des données issues des sciences de la terre, et vers la publication des conclusions dans des forums autres que ceux des sciences humaines. Ces axes de réflexion sont, ensuite, appliqués à un récit qui traite de la relocation de la bourse de Johannesburg, raconté par son ancien Président Directeur Général. Ce récit, qui revêt un aspect biographique, mène à considérer la géologie de la ville, ses cours d’eau, sa végétation et la logique de construction du nouveau district d’affaires, Sandton, vers lequel la bourse migra.
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