Key-words in Ecology and their Critique from Ecolinguistic Point of View

Different types of links between language and ecology have been discussed by the linguists all over the world since the last three decades. In the early 90s, a new research subfield was established – Critical Ecolinguistics, which is based on the opinion that languages are elements of ecosystems and, among other factors, influence on the state of the natural environment. The aim of the article is to present key-words functioning in Polish ecological discourse (its cognitions, collocations, connotations) with the ecolinguistic critical commentary concerning linguistic problems in expressing and naming different ecological issues. Key-words were abstracted from the popular-scientific, thematic dictionary “1000 words about Ecology and Nature Protection” by Adam Mierzwiński on the basis of the quantitative criterion.