Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018)

Ecological Discourse Analysis

Authors
Yina Wu
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Yina Wu
Available Online September 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.163How to use a DOI?
Keywords
ecolinguistics, ecological discourse analysis, language ecology, ecosophies
Abstract

Ecology has inevitably become the core issue of the 21st century, and ecolinguistics, the interdiscipline of ecology and linguistics, therefore has become the focus of study. This paper starts with different definitions of ecolin¬guistics, then contrasts “ecological discourse analysis” with “the analysis of ecological discourse” and “language ecology”, and comes to the conclusion that ecolinguistics is much more than the study of language ecology or the analysis of texts that happen to be about environmental or ecological issues. Rather, ecolinguistics should include the analysis of all discourses within an ecological framework which considers the impact of the discourses on the systems which support life. In other words, ecolinguistics should be the ecological analysis of all discourses. Perhaps the ideal future for ecolinguistics is for different new studies to emerge that are based on explicit ecosophies and are practically useful in resisting the discourses that underlie an ecologically destructive and socially unjust society.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
September 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-687-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.163How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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