Document Type : Original Article
Author
East Asia, Asian Cultural Documentation Center, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The present inquiry provides a theoretical elucidation of ecological discourse analysis- a novel approach in Linguistics grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which incorporates the concept of ecosophy to explore the relationship between Language and ecosystem. Ecological discourse analysis, emphasizing the principles of diversity and harmony as well as interaction and coexistence, classifies discourses based on their environmental impact into three categories ecobeneficial, ecodestructive and ecoambivalent. This theoretical framework expands upon the experiential, interpersonal, logical and textual metafunctions along with their corresponding linguistic system such as transitivity, modality, appraisal, thematic structure, cohesion and coherence in order to investigate the linguistic mechanisms underlying environmental discourses. The literature review section, by highlighting the theoretical and methodological boundaries between ecological discourse analysis and ecocriticism, warns against conflating these two approaches in certain Persian-language studies. The purpose of this theoretical exposition is to provide a precise foundation for the appropriate application of this approach to Persian literary and linguistic texts and to caution against the premature adaptation of concepts that cannot be properly applied without a thorough understanding of their theoretical underpinnings.
Keywords
- Ecological Discourse Analysis
- experiential metafunction
- interpersonal metafunction
- textual metafunction
- logical metafunction
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