{"id":97917,"date":"2017-09-04T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=97917"},"modified":"2017-09-02T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:00:22","slug":"ecolinguistics-rhymed-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/09\/ecolinguistics-rhymed-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecolinguistics: Rhymed Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between language users\u00a0and\u00a0their environments,<br \/>\na myriad \u00a0relationships\u00a0there are.<br \/>\nGiven such oceanic diversity,<br \/>\nhas our human ecolinguistic\u00a0identity gone very far?<\/p>\n<p>How do Nature and Language interact?<br \/>\nWhy is Nature a part of every communicative act?<\/p>\n<p>How do all living things communicate?<br \/>\nEcolinguistically, why should we also educate?<\/p>\n<p>Can the totality of the natural world<br \/>\never be linguistically represented?<br \/>\nThrough languages and other semiotic systems,<br \/>\nhow are ecosystems presented?<\/p>\n<p>Why is sharing the Earth in sustainable serenity<br \/>\nan urgently needed mission for all\u00a0Humanity?<\/p>\n<p>When Ecology and Language, together they walk;<br \/>\nAbout what ecolinguistic realities and imaginations<br \/>\ndo they talk?<br \/>\n________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, ABA Global Education (<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between language users and their environments,<br \/>\na myriad  relationships there are.<br \/>\nGiven such oceanic diversity,<br \/>\nhas our human ecolinguistic identity gone very far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}