Imran Abdullah

The term "climate change" has been replaced by the term "global warming" instead of "global warming" The seriousness of contemporary environmental disaster on humans.

In the book "Can Poetry Save the Earth", the literary critic John Flaustiner discussed the importance of poetry, language and symbolic abilities in times of environmental crisis. Considering poetry able to make people regain interest in the environment.

Linguistic and biological diversity
Our world is not only losing biodiversity but also linguistic and cultural diversity. UNESCO's 2018 data in the Atlas of the Threatened Languages ​​of the World indicate that 2,500 local languages ​​are threatened with extinction and that there is a language that dies every two weeks.

The synchronization between the loss of biological diversity and cultural linguistics does not appear to be merely a coincidence but rather a link between them, as a group of researchers in Ecology (Ecology) points out.

The Guardian announced the modification of some of its terms to govern the description of certain phenomena and areas (British Press)

Some recent trends in linguistic studies, specifically "neuro linguistics," have focused on the relationship between the biological processes of the brain, language, and mental processes that occur in the mind and its effect on the language system in "Cognitive Linguistics" and the relationship between people's environment and language has recently become of interest to linguists.

Studies show that most of the world's largest biodiversity regions are also areas of linguistic and cultural diversity, and that of the more than 6,000 languages ​​left in the world, there are approximately 5,000 languages ​​in areas with large biological diversity, As well.

The human expansion, crops, diseases and languages ​​of the world - especially Europe - have been linked to damage to the diversity of life, culture and language. Researchers believe that the continuing cultural traditions of indigenous populations and economies and the management of their local environments in remote areas have allowed biodiversity to grow and flourish.

Language and environment
Linguists say that increasing the number of words that describe environmental issues in a language means raising awareness of their issues. Most of the new terms originate in English, are very technical and abstract and often form multiple combinations of words of Greek or Latin origin.

Some terms were used to mislead the public about environmentally problematic practices such as "land reclamation" to address the same issues from a completely different perspective because of terms that might give a misleading positive attitude to environmentally harmful practice.

In the "environmental language," researchers consider that animals in the same way as human pronouns in some languages ​​(and not the non-sane form) emphasize people's solidarity with their environment, and that the linguistic relationship between cause and effect affects the human perspective on the environment.

Linguistic American Chomsky sees that human language is independent of its (European)

Classification and future time
Humans naturally tend to classify, organize, and label important things in the human experience around the world, such as color and shapes. The anthropologist Brent Berlin and others have found that there are global patterns in how humans name and classify biological species in their environment.

All languages ​​and cultures classify the names of plants in a regular, non-random manner. For example, the lexicon of plant names grows each year by adding new vocabulary to more specific plant categories and species. Oak, for example, turns into "white oak," as people's growing awareness of plants grows around them with the new, In the identification of living species.

In a study published in the Journal of Comparative Economics, a new source of environmental behavior is the existence of a future time in language, with the expectation that languages ​​with this time are less likely to be environmentalists.

Saber hypothesis
The American linguist Edward Sapir considers that the language spoken by a person influences the way he views and interacts with the world. Four different hypotheses of the relationship between languages ​​and their environments are known and all come from different schools of linguistic thought.

The American linguist Noam Chomsky and the school of literal linguists considered that human language is independent of its environment, while others suggest that language is the one that builds the world and its existence.