UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUACIÓN

NAMES:
ANA CAJAMARCA
DIANA JIMBO
MONICA QUIZHPI
PAOLA VELASCO
VERONICA VILLA

TEACHER: DULCE MARÍA PÉREZ.

TOPIC: ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE.

SUBJECT: ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL

LANGUAGE.

DATE: 05-06-19.
 Ecology of language

Introduction:
The study of the ecology of language is aimed at understanding the coexistence of
different languages and how these have evolved over the years allowing for the
survival of the human species.
Another of the objectives of the study of the ecology of the language is to
recognize that although the languages have evolved, we try to promote the
languages that have been historically part of the local communities and that they
do not disappear, but rather that they are strengthened as a result of the growth of
social interactions with a wider world. Fill, A., & Muhlhausler, P. (2006) write:
“Ecology of language may be defined as the study of interactions between any
given language and its environment”.
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This is may be observed in Africa where European languages, spoken primarily as
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lingua francas, are restricted to ethnographic domains introduced by the colonial
regime, so they are used in the modern education system, though more and
more countries are endeavoring to use indigenous languages.
In addition, ecology is aimed at biological evolution; languages also evolve at the
mercy of socio-economic ecologies, although they also depend on geographical
ecologies.
There is one another important ecological factor is the emergence of a human
specific mind; it is capable of processing and storing a lot of information and
producing or learning modern human languages. This is reflected in people and
animals, where people learn the languages of their social environment and of any
population in which they immerse themselves. Instead, animals cannot learn human
languages but they learn means of communication that are specific to other animals.
It is difficult to explain the historical and phylogenetic aspects of the evolution of the
language without taking into account the changes in the ecology of the human
communication with respect to whether these are caused by changes in their mental
capacity, social organizations and interaction with the population.
The ecology of language is also relevant to synchronic linguistics, especially in
regard to the ethnography of communication in which a speaker is a dynamic agent
that adapts his linguistic behavior to various communicative interactions, and
adjusting to current ecological pressures.
Finally, it is important to take into consideration that the speakers reflect the history
of their language and their own stories of personal interaction through the way they
use it in different languages to satisfy their respective communicative needs.
Conclusion:
To conclude the ecology of language is the interaction of a language with other
languages in the minds of bilingual and multilingual speakers, in its interaction with
the particular society in which it is used as a means of communication.
During the development of creoles, as of other new languages varieties, the
structural systems of the lexifiers were naturally undone and redone a few times
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being modified in the transmission process it involves both inheritance and
recreation.
It is also useful to remember that language and linguistic communities are
discontinuous more like metapopulations in ecology, which consist of habitat
patches connected by dispersing individuals.
The vitality of languages depends on how the populations, consisting of individuals
associated with them get to use them in various settings with the consequences
varying depending on whether these languages are used in all domains of the
speakers or only in some but not in others.
References:
Fill, A., & Muhlhausler, P. (Eds.). (2006). Ecolinguistics reader: Language, ecology
and environment. A&C Black.
I. Haugen, E. (2001). The Ecology of Language. The Linguistic Reporter. 25.
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ecology. In Population dynamics in ecological space and
time, ed. By Rhodes, Jr., E., Chesser, R., and Smith, M. 13-43.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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