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LANGUAGE, BELIEFS AND CONCEPTS

What is the best method of investigating underlying assumptions regarding natural resources in our own society" A first step towards a deeper understanding could be to make an empirical study of some of the ways in which individuals or groups express their attitudes linguistically. What beliefs, attitudes and concepts are expressed by individuals in interviews or in written documents? Can one find hidden perhaps subconscious assumptions behind what is said? How do such assumptions influence beliefs, conceptual systems and ways of thinking? The approach taken in this part of our project could be characterized as a study of how people think and talk about nature and natural resources. Due to the aims of the project the study is interdisciplinary and is an attempt to confront linguistic, philosophical, psychological and more socially orientated theories about thinking and argumentation with approaches towards nature and natural resources as developed in the natural sciences. In what follows will be outlined some of the ways in which a study of language and language use gives us access to the views the members of a particular society have about nature, energy and natural resources.