- Standardsignatur4354
- Titel"Wie man in den Wald hineinruft ..." - Vom Wald in der Sprache und der Sprache im Wald : 10.000 Jahre Wald und Mensch
- VerfasserRoderich von Detten (*)
- Erscheinungsjahr2002
- SeitenTeil I, S. 108-112; Teil 2, 57(6), S. 181-185
- Illustrationen34 Lit. Ang.
- MaterialUnselbständiges Werk
- Datensatznummer200075897
- QuelleForst und Holz 2002 ; 57(4), Teil I, S. 108-112; Teil 2, 57(6), S. 181-185
- AbstractThe forest has played and still plays a prominent role in our language - not only in poetry and fairy tales, but also in everyday life. The examination of our terminology in the past and present times shows a wide variety of terms, proverbs and symbols, in which forests appear. As an icon of the German romanticism, forests survive as a marvellous world in our vocabulary down to the present day. Especially as a symbol the forest is conceptualized as wilderness, a place for getting lost, but also as a symbol for the imponerable life, the place of metamorphosis, symbol of the subconscious, even as place of refuge and as social symbol. The symbolic meaning of forests as a "shadow" of civilisation, as symbolic antithesis of the civilized world is a phenomenon that existed throughout history. The "wild forest" is still a vanishing point of the human soul and a lively cultural symbol. Besides the question of the role of forests in our language, the question arises on how our language, our terms and manners of speaking affect our relationship to forests and shape our interactions with forests. In examining this question from linguistic analysis of the relevant silvicultural system of the past 200 years, language in general and metaphors in particular appear as autonomous factor of forest cultivation. As a recently published study could show, there is in fact a close correspondance between metaphorical language, perception of the forest and silvicultural concept. This leads to several consequences: a) a revised perception of the role of language in forestry, which is now conceived as an active and crucial factor of silviculture, b) an understanding of silvicultural systems as aesthetic styles, that are concentrated on metaphorical models in the background and c) the perception of forests as phenomena that are shaped by our ways of speaking, our metaphors, terms, concepts and ideas (e.g. forests as organisms, machines, gardens, architecture etc.). If we try to explain how the two perspectives, on the forest in our language and on our language in the forest, corresponds with each other, the imaginary character of forests becomes visible. Like in a circular flow, forests are both a source and origin for our imagination of the human civilisation, and have ever been a result of our imaginations.
- SchlagwörterSprachforschung
- Klassifikation907.6 (Einfluß auf Religion, Kunst usw.)
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