ABSTRACT
The future of science will be transdisciplinary. The meaning of a transdisciplinary linguistics is explained. Transdisciplinarity is not identical to interdisciplinarity. It strives at connective knowledge. Ecolinguistics proper will serve as a pace maker towards that aim because it changes the understanding of the linguistic problems by the connective thinking in ecological systems (demonstrated by the theory of language, grammar and pragmatics). The task to fulfill is hampered by the bureaucratic inertia of university structures; some examples are given. The chapter ends with a critique of normal ‘ecolinguistics light’ for following the common scientific routine of disregarding linguistic diversity.
