Ecological Discourse Research Articles

A Transitivity Analysis of International Ecological Discourse – Taking Remarks at the APEC Informal Economic Leaders’ Retreat as an Example

A Transitivity Analysis of International Ecological Discourse – Taking Remarks at the APEC Informal Economic Leaders’ Retreat as an Example

Analysis of Environmental News Reports From Ecological Discourse Theory

Analysis of Environmental News Reports From Ecological Discourse Theory

Corporate Religion and Spiritual Tourism at a Luxury Tibetan Buddhist Resort

ABSTRACT This article analyses how spiritual tourism and the corporate form of religion are contributing to the rapid spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Vietnam. Specifically, we place the newly established Samten Hills, a Buddhist luxury resort, in two scholarly contexts. First: ecological discourses about Đà Lạt. Once a French hill station, Đà Lạt in the Central Highlands is famous for natural beauty and spiritual possibilities. Samten Hills is dedicated as a Drikung Kagyu spiritual area, and many of the resident monks are from Ladakh (North India). We highlight the transposition of Ladakhi Buddhist branding to a novel Vietnamese context. Through tour packages, advertising, spiritual practices, camping, and discourses about Buddhist mountain hierophanies, we consider this new iteration of spiritual tourism. Second: a spiritual business model that blurs the distinction between economic and religious activity and negotiates state surveillance. With Vietnam Federation of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Associations (VFUA) and Guinness recognition and plans to construct a 2000-person Buddhist university, Samten Hills is the most public-facing, large-scale Vajrayana site in Southeast Asia. We analyse Samten Hills’ operational model – a for-profit business licence allied with discourses of heritage preservation and regional tourism initiatives but concealing Tibetan Buddhist practices – as an increasingly popular strategy for navigating state surveillance of religious activity.

The Novels Of Syed Muhammad Ashraf and Ecological Discourse

The Novels Of Syed Muhammad Ashraf and Ecological Discourse

Ecological discourse analysis of Al-Sisi’s climate change speech at the COP-27 Conference

Ecological discourse analysis of Al-Sisi’s climate change speech at the COP-27 Conference

Mathematics education for STEM as place

Positioned within Indigenous and ecological discourses, our paper reconsiders human-centered relationships with earth and activities such as STEM that view earth as commodity, resource, and platform. In doing so, we turn to the ways earth (e.g., rivers, forests, animals) teaches mathematics education for STEM as place and reveals intelligences that exceed those of humankind. Using examples of place and land, we illustrate how such a conception contrasts with current calls and goals for STEM and integrated STEM education. We contend that comprehending STEM as place renews potential for success to be defined “as the continuity of life”; that is, all that concerns the natural world, including human wellbeing in general, and in particular mathematics and mathematics education. To conclude, we propose research directions to study mathematical ways of being, mathematics, and mathematics education for STEM as place. We include possible implications and pathways for such work which prompts (re)visioning and (re)enacting mathematics education to be for STEM as place.

ТЕОРЕТИКО-МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ЕКОЛІНГВІСТИКИ ЯК НОВОГО МІЖДИСЦИПЛІНАРНОГО НАПРЯМКУ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ

The article deals with the theoretical and methodological foundations of ecolinguistics as a field that explores the relationship between language and the environment in its various manifestations. We trace the origins of ecolinguistics and its gradual transition from the study of ecological discourse as such to the analysis of ecology representations in other discourses. It is argued that ecolinguistics should be distinguished from ecology of language, since the latter is focused on interlingual relations and applies a quite different methodology. We also outline the principle of ecosophy, which underlies the methodology of ecolinguistic research, as well as the types of lexical and grammatical features representing key ideologies that influence the public perception of the environment and environmental measures. Furthermore, we explicate the ecolinguistic classification of discourses into destructive, ambivalent and beneficial for the environment, with the consideration of methodological variations corresponding to each: in particular, the use of critical discourse analysis for destructive discourses and positive discourse analysis for beneficial discourses. Attention is paid to multimodal discourse analysis as one of the complementary methods of ecolinguistics, as well as to corpus-based methods that allow for a more accurate and complete elucidation of environmental narratives of certain social groups in a synchronic or diachronic perspective. The possibility of implementing ecolinguistic principles in pedagogical practice, especially in language training, is highlighted. We conclude with the promising directions of ecolinguistic research in the modern context of Ukraine, where ecological awareness is at an extremely low level and hence the ecolinguistic vector of research seems to be highly relevant.

Особенности эвфемизации в современном экологическом дискурсе (на примере немецкого языка)

The paper is devoted to the study of euphemisms, which, due to certain functional values, have a great manipulative potential realized in various discursive practices. The concealment of unpleasant facts through euphemisms is often found in the mass media reflecting political and business interests, as well as in product advertising. The aim of the research is to identify the semantic-pragmatic and extralinguistic features of euphemistic naming units characteristic of modern German ecological discourse. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it was possible to determine the causal factors that activate the processes of secondary naming in the language leading to the creation of euphemisms in the ecological language. The authors describe the functionality of euphemistic naming units and also consider in detail their structural-semantic aspect. As a result, it was found that euphemisms as means of softening negative assessments are always conditioned by the social situational relevance and are distinguished by the ability to conceal the direct meaning of the denotation, mitigate its negative connotation, thereby not causing negative associations in the recipient.

Ecological Discourse Analysis of Environmental News Reports: A Case Study of China Daily (2022)

As an emerging discipline, ecolinguistics has been of considerable interest to scholars at home and abroad in different fields, with the deterioration of global ecological situation and the improvement of people’s ecological awareness. Ecolinguistics should be concerned not only with the studies on the relationship among human, nature and society, but also with the studies on the language itself, such as sound, form and meaning. Therefore, taking as a theoretical framework attitude system, a subsystem of Appraisal Theory, this paper will analyze how the attitudinal resources are distributed and then reveal the ecological meaning and the hidden ideology embodied in news reports as well as explore how environmental news reports affect human ecological awareness and the ecological environment in terms of environmental news reports selectively collected from China Daily in 2022.

Эвфемизмы в экологическом дискурсе современного английского языка

The paper addresses euphemization using the example of ecological euphemisms in the modern English language. The aim of the research is to discover the pragmatic and extra-linguistic reasons for the appearance as well as the functioning peculiarities of euphemisms in the ecological discourse of the English language. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by an attempt to describe the cognitive mechanisms underlying the formation of ecological euphemisms in the modern English language. The paper touches upon theoretical issues connected with euphemisms, such as the definition of the notion of “euphemism”, as well as the function of euphemistic word combinations as cultural signs of a language community. In order to describe cognitive mechanisms employed to form the semantics of ecological euphemisms, the notion of lexico-semantic de-/focusing is introduced. As a result, it has been shown that in the discourse under investigation, euphemisms perform heterogeneous functions: the function of veiling aimed at concealing human-induced negative impact on the environment, as well as removing responsibility for its consequences, as opposed to the function of forming ecocentric consciousness of the native speakers.

‘The past is becoming the future’: Genghis Khan the environmentalist and the discourses of modernity and legacy concerning proper waste disposal in post-socialist Mongolia

ABSTRACT This paper examines the transformation of the proper site of waste disposal across ecosocial landscapes throughout twentieth century Mongolian history to today. As Western ecological discourses became dominant in public space, they were not set up in a vacuum but rather mixed with vernacular ideas of waste from pre-socialist times as well as socialist cultural campaigns. If Mongolian zero-waste and waste recycling associations claim to belong to international movements and adopt a globalized upper-class eco-habitus, their discourses also reinterpret two imperial and idealized parts of Mongolian history: socialist modernity, when proper waste management was a sign of modernity and culture, and the Mongol Empire, when even Genghis Khan would not have left permanent traces along his path. This article is therefore about the present reinventing the past through ecologist discourses that allow Mongolians to define themselves both as modern and as true Mongols.

An Ecological Discourse Analysis of Silent Spring from the Perspective of Corpus-based Attitude System: Human Image as an Example

The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, a famous contemporary American marine biologist, has prompted environmental issues to become the biggest theme of our time and triggered the rise of the modern environmental movement. In this paper, Two corpus tools are used to analyze the attitude resources related to the human characters in Silent Spring from an ecological linguistic perspective of the attitude system. The study finds that the farmers and workers portrayed in the book are both destroyers and victims of ecology, while the scientists and ecologists play the role of protectors and managers of ecology. The article rejects the previous notion of "an thropocentrism" and reveals that the author advocates an ecological view of nature in which "all things are equal and interdependent", with a view to awakening the ecological consciousness of human beings and then taking the initiative to care for nature and protect the earth.

Morphological Analysis of Philippine Ecological Neologisms

Using a qualitative-descriptive design in analyzing morphological processes and structures, the present study examines the ecological neologisms used in the Philippines. Ecological, environmental, or green neologisms are newly added lexicons used in daily ecological discourses. To appraise the study's aims to identify, define, analyze, and differentiate ecological neologisms from other neologisms as used in the Philippines, the study extracted its data from the Press Release Section website of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources from January 2022 to December 2022. A total of two hundred twenty-nine (229) articles were examined for this paper. Results reveal the presence of fourteen (14) ecological neologisms in the articles: ecological integrity, urban park, climate finance, green job, green city, ecoexpert, ecofrontliner, ecodefender, climate agenda, green assessment, ecoyouth, river ranger, ecohero, and ecoinspector. Further, these neologisms are borrowed from the English vocabulary and are all classified as nouns, and are mainly used to name individuals who engage in environmental initiatives in the Philippines. Moreover, these ecological neologisms are formed through compounding and blending, following the general rule of structuring words in Standard English.

An Ecological Discourse Analysis of Border Town from the Interpersonal Function Perspective: A Literature Review

Facing the current needs of socially sustainable development and ecological civilization construction, how to devote ourselves to the conservation of the ecosystem has become the focus of an increasing number of scholars. In the field of linguistics, the study of ecological discourse has become a new direction. Ecological Discourse Analysis is to reveal the ecological means of discourse through language analysis in order to prevent the ecological damage of human action. Hallidayan's approach emphasizes the role of language in ecological issues and the impact of language on ecological relationships, and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) lays stress on describing and analyzing linguistic facts in order to construct reality. Accordingly, this thesis conducts an ecological analysis of Shen Congwen’s classic book Border Town under the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to explore the ecological relationship between man and nature reflected by the novel, with the expectation that this thesis will further arouse people’s awareness to environmental issues, lead people to rethink the role that human and nature play respectively and provide a new research direction for ecological discourse analysis.

Ecological discourse as a new indicator for improving individual ecological behaviour in environmental protection: an ecolinguistic continuum perspective

Ecological discourse as a new indicator for improving individual ecological behaviour in environmental protection: an ecolinguistic continuum perspective

"The highest roof in the world": Home Landscapes in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter, published in 1972, demonstrates an anxiety regarding the issue of region that is pervasive throughout the entirety of the novel. Welty focalizes her discourse of region through a distinction between the concept of home, embodied in the natural landscape of a particular place, and the infrastructure of a constructed house. While several critics have broached the topic of home and region in their readings of Welty, most of this scholarship conflates the idea of home with the construction of the house without seriously interrogating the difference between the two terms. In this paper, I will argue that such a conflation largely overlooks Welty's participation in a distinctly ecological discourse. For Welty, as for many contemporary ecocritical scholars, such as Timothy Clark and Leo Mellor, individual identity—and humanity by extent—can only thrive when properly connected to and appreciative of the surrounding environment, particularly an environment that constitutes a home.

Voices in Shaping Water Governance: Exploring Discourses in the Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia

As is the case elsewhere in the world, water governance in Ethiopia is a by-product of a complex set of various global and local socio-political, economic, and ecological discourses and narratives. However, the many competitive and often conflicting discourses on shaping water governance in the Ethiopian Central Rift Valley (CRV) have not been examined and chronicled. This paper investigates the different discourses, narratives, and debates of water governance and their implications for satisfying the growing demand for water. The study was grounded in political economy and political ecology theoretical frameworks. Data were collected through literature surveys and intensive fieldwork, and were analyzed following a discourse analysis and using narrative analysis techniques. The study found that the dominant competing discourses that have greatly influenced water governance in the CRV focus on decentralization, water-centered development, marketization, land/water degradation, climate change, water scarcity, and weak water governance. We suggest that the analysis and documentation of the diverse narratives and discourses from multiple perspectives could help to unravel the complex nature of water governance in the CRV and lay the foundation for attempts to implement sustainable water resource management in the region.

The ecological discourse analysis of news discourse based on deep learning from the perspective of ecological philosophy.

Recently, ecological damage and environmental pollution have become increasingly serious. Experts in various fields have started to study related issues from diverse points of view. To prevent the accelerated deterioration of the ecological environment, ecolinguistics emerged. Eco-critical discourse analysis is one of the important parts of ecolinguistics research, that is, it is a critical discourse analysis of the use of language from the perspective of the language's ecological environment. Firstly, an ecological tone and modality system are constructed from an ecological perspective. Under the guidance of the ecological philosophy of "equality, harmony, and symbiosis", this study conducts an ecological discourse analysis on the Sino-US trade friction reports, aiming to present the similarities and differences between the two newspapers' trade friction discourses and to reveal the ecological significance of international ecological factors in the discourse. Secondly, this method establishes a vector expression of abstract words based on emotion dictionary resources and introduces emotion polarity and part-of-speech features of words. Then the word vector is formed into the text feature matrix, which is used as the input of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, and the Back Propagation algorithm is adopted to train the model. Finally, in the light of the trained CNN model, the unlabeled news is predicted, and the experimental results are analyzed. The results reveal that during the training process of Chinese and English datasets, the accuracy of the training set can reach nearly 100%, and the loss rate can be reduced to 0. On the test set, the classification accuracy of Chinese text can reach 83%, while that of English text can reach 90%, and the experimental results are ideal. This study provides an explanatory approach for ecological discourse analysis on the news reports of Sino-US trade frictions and has certain guiding significance for the comparative research on political news reports under different ideologies between China and the United States.

An Eco-discourse Analysis of the Nature Poem from the Perspective of Transitivity System - A Case Study of Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ecological discourse analysis, as an emerging discipline, aims to reveal the role of language in ecology. The transitivity system serves as a theoretical foundation, which helps to explore the ecological ideas implied in ecological discourse. William Wordsworth, a British Romantic poet, is famous for his poetry depicting natural scenery. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a representative work of his nature poems. Based on the transitivity system of systemic functional linguistics, this paper conducts a deep analysis of Wordsworth's nature poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud from the perspective of ecological discourse analysis, exploring the basic path of the poet's expression of his ecological view through language. On the one hand, the poet regards the relationship between humans and all things in nature as a harmonious and equal dialogue partnership. He wants to advocate respect for nature, awe of nature, and oppose anthropocentrism, promoting the ecological idea of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, which reflects his positive ecological view. On the other hand, by studying Wordsworth's ecological ideas, readers can be guided to establish a healthy ecological view, enhance their sense of ecological responsibility, and promote people's love for nature and friendship with nature.

Research on the Generation Model of President Xi Jinping’s Ecological Discourse from the Perspective of Transitivity

Undeniably, ecological problems have tight contact with the development of human society. China as the largest developing country in the world, its ecological policy asserts great influence and President Xi Jinping’s discourses is an important reflection. By conducting a quantitative and qualitative research from the perspective of the Transitivity theory on the generation model of President Xi Jinping's ecological discourses, this paper finds that President Xi Jinping mainly apply material process, relational process and mental process to express four kinds of ecological discourses topics which are problem response, expression of construction goal, construction methods, call for common action, finally realizing the refection of the ecological idea, that is, to achieve the harmonious development of man and nature.