DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS AND CURRENT TRENDS OF ECOLINGUISTICS IN AZERBAIJAN

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of development prospects and modern trends and developments in ecolinguistics in Azerbaijan. The given article analyzes new trends in ecolinguistics and analyzes the research of ecolinguistics of the foreign scientists. It should also be noted that the recent holding of COP29 in Baku gave a powerful impetus to further increase the authority of Azerbaijan in the world and directly and unhinderedly communicate the country’s realities to the international community, and this event also created the conditions for the further development of various directions and areas of ecolinguistics.

Formed at the intersection of social, psychological and philosophical trends in linguistics, ecolinguistics is one of the modern scientific directions in the field of linguistics. Ecolinguistics examines the role of language in possible solutions to environmental problems. Recognizing the relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, ecolinguistics documents the linguistic structures and verbal practices through which speakers conceptualize, encode, and communicate knowledge about the natural world. Since ecolinguistics considers language in terms of interaction, its object is the natural environment for natural lan
guages.

The ecology of language can be defined as the science of the relationship between language and its environment, where the environment of language is understood as a society that uses language as one of its codes; accordingly, linguistic ecology studies the relationship between language and “ecological” issues. Linguistic ecology, or ecology of language, is the study of how languages interact with each other and with the places where they are spoken, and often argues for the conservation of endangered languages by analogy with the conservation of biological species, which is very relevant for present time. The linguistic ecology perspective follows the metaphor of an ecosystem in which balance ensures the survival of all species.