제이 그리피스의 ‘자연의 시간’과 ‘생태언어’ = Jay Griffiths’ Natural Time and Ecological Language

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper pays attention to the mutual relation between ‘natural time’ and ‘ecological language’ as described in Jay Griffiths’ A Sideways Loot at Time and Wild: An Elemental Journey, and to survey its meaning in the light of ecological linguistics. The characteristics of natural time include such ideas as slowness, feminity, intuition, implication and introversion. Since natural language sympathizes with natural time, it becomes full of eternal vitality contrary to the lineal time of modern industrial society. Furthermore, lively natural language is capable of stretching out endlessly through self-proliferation.
Griffiths emphasizes that the four basic elements of earth, water, fire and air in nature are interwoven and she poeticizes them in a variety of forms through the narrative technique of ‘synaesthesia’. Examples of this include ‘verdant and noisy verb’, ‘peak salmon-smelling’, ‘visible silence’ and ‘dolphins seeing in sound’, ‘natives hearing their way’, ‘tones of color in the sands like tones of music’. In this sense, it becomes possible to sympathize with the feeling that “the song can be ‘seen’ in the land and the land can be ‘heard’ in the song” in places of primitive and elemental wilderness. Contrastingly, although the author has an excellent command of techniques such as simile, metaphor, irony and synaesthesia, she often remains silent in front of nature and this ‘language of silence’ can be seen as the limit of man’s linguistic capabilities.
Modern capitalism and materialistic civilization have almost degraded the permanent circulation of natural time and natural language into the means for material profit. Natural ecosystems are becoming devastated rapidly due to these modern values and attitudes and this is clearly evident in the disappearance of minority languages in remote of the world. Griffiths criticizes such a linguistic invasion called a ‘language imperialism’ and instead dreams of an ‘ecological democracy’ throughout the world.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 서론
• 2. 본론
• 3. 결론
• 인용문헌
• Abstract

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