ABSTRACT
Ecosystemic linguistics (EL) is the branch of ecolinguistics which builds its epistemological foundations from within ecology, whose central concept is the ecosystem. An ecosystem’s defining characteristic is interaction. Therefore, EL sees language as communicative interaction, not just as an instrument of communication. EL looks at language from the ecological view of the world, from which any language phenomena can be investigated, ‘internally’ and ‘externally’, even if with the help of a specialist. With the results obtained by the latter, the EL practitioner goes back to the holistic position in order to evaluate the results obtained. EL is thus multimethodological.
