Environmental Hermeneutics Through Music Ethnography: An Eco-Linguistic Study

Abstract

Ecolinguistics has been emerged as one of the youngest paradigms in the areas of linguistics research since 1990. Language and ecology are intertwined with each other for the intelligibility that it created through the lives of people and their psychological, sociological, and cultural transmissions over the past centuries. Movies, novels, pastoral poetry, ecocriticism and journals, health magazines, biographical narratives etc. this sort of effects are found in the society which can be referred to as ecological healing and romantic eclairs. The reference of healing power through the term ‘ecolinguistics’ makes the sumptuous chunk of this paper for the exploration into numerous pathways to research in linguistic ecology with a prime focus on the potential fields of investigation. This paper throws light on the storytelling adaptations through language of ecology by way of presenting paraphrase of a bunch of items such as songs from a Malayalam film, Ramu Kariat’s ‘Nellu’ (1974), with evidential support carried from a Transcendentalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau’s classical masterpiece and essay ‘Walden’ (1854) and attempts to bring an idea of eco-semiotics and linguistic relativity. These works are the true granaries of language of ecology, society, and mind which has a magical power to soothe the psyche of man who in turn gets engrossed in the thoughts of nature’s signs. Theories such as Umvelt Theory, Semiosphere theory, Ecosemiotic Feedback Loops etc. are used for strengthen the proposition of this paper. This paper underlines the significance of eco-phenomenology that investigates human experiences and perceptions of nature through phenomenological analysis.