| Summary: | The fusion of linguistics and ecology leads to either ecolinguistics or
linguistic ecology. The Haugenian approach and the Hallidayan approach
are generally regarded by European, American and Chinese scholars as
two paradigms of ecolinguistics research. In Russia, some scholars share
the same view while most do not. To sum up, there are five different
viewpoints regarding the disciplines formed by the fusion of linguistics
and ecology. They are the identical view, the parallel view, the inclusive
& identical view, the inclusive & parallel view, and the parallel &
overlapping view. This paper studies these different viewpoints from the
perspectives of the discipline’s foundation, research paradigm, research
objective, task, content and terminological system and concludes that the
combination of ecology and linguistics can produce “linguistic ecology”
and “ecolinguistics”, or “ecology + linguistics”
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