O tao da linguagem: semelhanças entre linguística, construtivismo social e misticismo

Authors

  • Arran Stibbe University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham

Keywords:

Language; Semantics; Social constructivism; Taoism; Zen-Buddhism.

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to show that sociology and linguistics contain ideas that are similar do oriental philosophy ”“ these will be discussed here too ”“. Further, I intend to show that these similarities are also present in other disciplines, especially modern physics as demonstrated in Capra (1999, 1982). An emphasis in these similarities combined with a synthesis of those traditions and other sciences are more useful than looking for dissimilarities among them. Key-words: Language; Semantics; Social constructivism; Taoism; Zen-Buddhism.   

Author Biography

  • Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham

    Professor de ecolinguística (Senior Lecturer) da University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Reino Unido. Tem se dedicado à análise de discursos (neoliberais) envolvidos na destruição e exploração de discursos alternativos no contexto da cultura japonesa. Tem investigado também a construção discursiva de meio ambiente, saúde, animais, limitações físicas (dilability) e medicina altrnativa. Ele já analisou textos de diversos órgãos de imprensa, tais como jornais, revistas, programas de televisão, livros de não ficção e filmes, no arcabouço da análise do discurso crítica. É organizador do Fórum de Debates Language and Ecology(www.ecoling.net), um dos mais completos sites de ecolinguística. Aí se encontram muitos artigos de diversos ecolinguistas do mundo inteiro. É organizador e modeador da lista de discussão ecolinguística (Ecolinguistics List): ecolinguistics@jiscmail.ac.uk. Em em http://glos.academia.edu/ArranStibbe há uma longa lista de artigos seus, alguns disponíveis online.  Seu livro Animals Erased: discourse, ecology and reconnection with the natural worldsaiu em 2012; quanto a Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, está previsto para o início de 2015. Organizou o livro The handbook of sustainability literacy (2009). Juntamente com Richard Alexander, é autor do primeiro texto sobre análise do discurso ecológica publicado em inglês (Language sciences v. 41, 2014, p. 104-110).

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2015-10-11

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O tao da linguagem: semelhanças entre linguística, construtivismo social e misticismo. (2015). Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 1(2), 21-38. https://periodicostestes.bce.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/10061