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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">43737</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-40405</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">MWLFWA</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">Language, nature and entrapped cognition</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Язык, природа и ловушки познания</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/0000-0001-9971-4019</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Druzhinin</surname><given-names>Andrey S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дружинин</surname><given-names>Андрей Сергеевич</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>habilitation in Linguistics and is Full Professor at MGIMO University (Moscow, Russia). His research interests range from radical constructivism and biosemiotics to pragmatic and dialogic studies of language.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры английского языка № 3 МГИМО МИД России. Сфера его научных интересов охватывает различные междисциплинарные направления - от радикального конструктивизма и биосемиотики до прагматики и диалогического подхода к языку.</p></bio><email>andrey.druzhinin.89@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">MGIMO-University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный институт международных отношений (университет) МИД России</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-04-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>04</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Ecolinguistics: Consolidating a research paradigm</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Эколингвистика: объединяя исследовательские парадигмы</issue-title><fpage>37</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-04-08"><day>08</day><month>04</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Druzhinin A.S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Дружинин А.С.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2025, Druzhinin A.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Druzhinin A.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Дружинин А.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Druzhinin A.</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/43737">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/43737</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>As a subfield of ecolinguistics, cognitive ecolinguistics is concerned with the impact of language and cognition on our way and quality of life by approaching language as a medium in and off which a human lives, with which she operates. This paper focuses on linguistically traceable patterns of knowing (perception and thought) that have negative environmental outcomes. It argues that these patterns result from what I call ‘entrapped cognition’ - a human-specific mode of cognition when ways of knowing naturally supersede the known, but at the same time, unnaturally reduce adaptivity to the changing environmental conditions. The study aims to prove that cognitive entrapment is not the fault of the brain or body or environment alone, but rather our brain-body-environment engagement that we harness in and through language. To achieve this aim, I bring methods of systems thinking along to cognitive ecolinguistics and describe four major factors that account for entrapped cognition: a constraint on human agency that creates an illusion of control; the derivative structure of cognition whereby one deals with novelties through older ways of understanding; the observer fallacy by which one phenomenological experience, although occurring post factum, is taken to explain another in hindsight; the confusion of orders of abstraction in understanding experiences due to the ‘sameness’ of linguistic form. An investigation of entrapped cognition in discursive practices reveals four patterns of understanding: traps of allness, stillness, symmetry and sameness. All these ways of cognitive entrapment pose ecological dangers for human flourishing and a healthy, sustainable development of the environment.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Когнитивная эколингвистика, являющаяся подобластью эколингвистики, занимается изучением влияния языка и познания на наш образ жизни и ее качество, рассматривая язык как среду, в которой живет человек и с которой он вступает в физическое, операционное и эмоциональное взаимодействие. В данной статье анализируются лингвистически определяемые паттерны познания (т.е. восприятия и мышления), которые оказывают пагубное влияние на окружающую социальную, природную и материальную среду. Данные паттерны являются результатом «ловушек познания», т.е. специфичной для биологического вида человека познавательной деятельности, в ходе которой естественным образом происходит замещение познаваемого способами познания, однако при этом неестественным образом снижается адаптивность к меняющимся условиям окружающей среды. Цель статьи - доказать, что ловушки познания обусловлены не столько особенностями мозга, тела или окружающей среды человека, сколько взаимодействием этих трех компонентов когнитивной системы, которое осуществляется посредством и внутри языка. Для достижения данной цели используются методы системного мышления в рамках когнитивной эколингвистики и описываются основные факторы ловушек познания: социокультурные ограничения, создающие иллюзию контроля; деривативная структура когниции и склонность полагаться на прежний опыт при взаимодействии с новым; иллюзия наблюдателя и феноменологическая подмена процесса его результатом; смешение уровней абстракции в процессе осмысления опыта из-за идентичности языковой формы. Выделяются четыре типа ловушек познания: ловушка «всещности», ловушка одинаковости, ловушка симметрии и ловушка статичности. Данные ловушки представляют существенную экологическую угрозу для человека, а также здоровью и устойчивому развитию окружающей среды.</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>ecosystem engineering</kwd><kwd>human agency</kwd><kwd>languaging</kwd><kwd>cognitive ecology</kwd><kwd>cognitive system</kwd><kwd>semiotic modeling</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>эдификация</kwd><kwd>человеческая агентивность</kwd><kwd>ориентирующее взаимодействие</kwd><kwd>когнитивная экология</kwd><kwd>когнитивная система</kwd><kwd>семиотическое моделирование</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Bateson, Gregory. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. 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