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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">37231</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-36732</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">ZSRRIV</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">More than just a tree: Ecolinguistics and responses to the felling of ‘Hadrian’s tree’</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Больше, чем просто дерево: эколингвистика и реакция на вырубку «дерева Адриана»</trans-title></trans-title-group><trans-title-group xml:lang="zh"><trans-title/></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9968-1162</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ponton</surname><given-names>Douglas Mark</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Понтон</surname><given-names>Дуглас Марк</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania (Italy). His research interests include political discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics and critical discourse studies. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Catania, Messina and Pisa. His most recent research projects concern the Montalbano effect on tourism in Sicily, ecological questions in Sicily, and Sicilian dialect theatre. He is linguistic consultant for Vernon Press and is peer reviewer for numerous international journals.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>профессор, преподаватель английского языка и перевода на кафедре политических и социальных наук в Катанийском университете (Италия). Сфера его научных интересов включает анализ политического дискурса, эколингвистику, социолингвистику, прикладную лингвистику, прагматику и критический дискурс-анализ. Преподавал в университетах Катании, Мессины и Пизы. Его недавние исследовательские проекты связаны с влиянием «эффекта Монтельбано» на туризм в Сицилии, с экологическими проблемами в Сицилии и сицилийским диалектным театром. Является консультантом по лингвистике в Vernon Press и рецензентом в ряде международных журналов.</p></bio><email>dmponton@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Catania</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Катанийский университет</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>27</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Modern Languages and Cultures: Varieties, Functions  and Ideologies in Cognitive Perspective</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Современные языки и культуры:  вариативность, функции и идеологии  в когнитивном аспекте</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="zh"/><fpage>797</fpage><lpage>819</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-12-29"><day>29</day><month>12</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Ponton D.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Понтон Д.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2023, Ponton D.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Ponton D.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Понтон Д.М.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Ponton D.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/37231">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/37231</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">In the current climate ecolinguistic research has arguably never been more important, as its basic premises regard the survival of life on Earth and key philosophical questions hitherto under-acknowledged by mainstream science. In recent decades, environmental thinking has made great advances in shaping current opinions towards nature and the non-human world. The goal of this paper is to explore certain currents of mediated thinking in modern Britain regarding nature, in order to assess how far expressions of sorrow for the felling of a prominent tree might correspond to a genuine ecological sentiment. The study explores public responses to an apparent case of eco-vandalism, the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree in September 2023 in Northumberland, using data taken from social media and other online sources such as e-newspapers. From the point of view of Ecolinguistic theory and that of Positive Discourse Analysis it applies critical lenses such as Evaluation and Discourse Pragmatics to dig beneath the surface of texts produced on the topic, in order to explore diverse current attitudes to trees in the UK. The paper finds that, though there are instances in which people appear to express grief for the loss of the Sycamore Gap tree, it is possible to account for these in ways that lessen the likelihood that they are motivated by purely ecological sentiment. In practice human attitudes towards trees tend to be superficial and instrumental, and this tendency is also found here. The Sycamore Gap event brings many latent social attitudes into play, and this paper thus contributes to the developing field of Ecolinguistics by focusing on tree-centred narratives, distinguishing between inherent ideologies of pseudo- and authentic environmental sensitivity.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Современная климатическая ситуация в мире обусловливает особую значимость эколингвистических исследований, поскольку их основные положения касаются сохранения жизни на Земле и ключевых философских вопросов, до сих пор недостаточно признаваемых официальной наукой. В последние десятилетия экологическое мышление оказывает существенное влияние на формирование взглядов на природу. Цель данной статьи - рассмотреть научные подходы к опосредованному осмыслению природы в современной Великобритании и определить, насколько скорбь по поводу вырубки одного реликтового дерева может соответствовать подлинным экологическим чувствам. В исследовании изучается реакция общественности на получивший широкую огласку случай эковандализма - вырубку в сентябре 2023 г. в Нортумберленде т.н. «платана Гэп», или «дерева Адриана». Материал был взят из социальных сетей и других онлайн-источников, в частности электронных газет. Нарративы исследовались с позиций эколингвистики и позитивного дискурс-анализа с применением критических подходов теории оценки и дискурс-прагматики для выявления заложенной в них скрытой информации и определения различных отношений к деревьям в современной Великобритании. Полученные данные продемонстрировали, что, хотя в ряде случаев люди выражают скорбь по поводу утраты «платана Гэп», есть основания предполагать, что ими движут не только экологические чувства. На практике отношение человека к деревьям часто является поверхностным и инструментальным. Анализ данного случая эковандализма и реакций на него выявил ряд скрытых социальных факторов, а также установил различия между псевдо- и подлинной экологической чувствительностью, что вносит вклад в развитие эколингвистики.</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>ecolinguistics</kwd><kwd>ecological discourse</kwd><kwd>mourning</kwd><kwd>environmental sensitivity</kwd><kwd>environmentalism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>эколингвистика</kwd><kwd>экологический дискурс</kwd><kwd>экологическая чувствительность</kwd><kwd>скорбь</kwd><kwd>экологизм</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Bäckstrand, Karin &amp; Eva Lövbrand. 2006. Planting trees to mitigate climate change: Contested discourses of ecological modernization, green governmentality and civic environmentalism. 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