Phraseology and Culture in English
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Phraseology and Culture in English
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- HABITAT + N
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+ (N) land acquisition landowner landcare land ownership landclearing land resource indicators land conservation landscape gardener land cover land use land degradation land use plans land evaluation land use pressures land husbandry land user land management (where LAND is a component of the second element of the compound) {V or adj} + N maintaining land safeguarding land threatened land valuable land private land Another productive component is habitat which tends to be used when discussing animals and plants endemic to a region. Those involved in pro- grams which aim to conserve species use compounds containing habitat to describe areas where such species still survive, despite incursions into their territory. The use of habitat rather than home or environment, (which could be considered synonymous in certain contexts) arises, because in most en- vironmental language, habitat includes flora and fauna, but excludes hu- mans. As with land, where it is talked about as a commodity controlled by Lexical developments in greenspeaking 289 humans, the habitat component sets humans apart and connotes the power- over relationship of humans to flora and fauna. HABITAT + N habitat area habitat destruction habitat linkage habitat change habitat evaluation habitat patches habitat conditions habitat fragmentation habitat types habitat corridor habitat interiors adj + HABITAT human-created habitat island-like habitat rehabilitated bush habitat human-modified habitat natural habitat space habitat In such compounds, habitat, like management, connotes the idea that humans have a special protector status in connection with other parts of the environment inhabited by less powerful or prestigious species. Cultural assumptions about the role of humans, as embedded in our lan- guage use, become powerfully clear when the list above is paired with mul- tiwords built around species. Where do humans fit in? What is our habitat? Download 1.68 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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