Unveiling the Language of Ideology in China’s Environmental Planning
Pilot Ecolinguistic Analysis of an Environmental Impact Assessment
Abstract
While predominantly seen as a technical process, environmental planning is in fact largely shaped by cultural and ideological factors. Ecolinguistics offers a coherent approach to analyse these elements, by unearthing their linguistic traces and exposing how they naturalize social-ecological goals. So far, limited efforts have gone into developing tools for a systematic ecolinguistic analysis of Chinese texts informing environmental decision-making. This paper seeks to address this gap, by introducing a novel ecolinguistic framework and the results of its application on a Chinese Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.
Submitted: Jan. 31, 2023 | Accepted: June 7, 2023 | Published Aug. 29, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Chinese • Politics • Ecolinguistics • Impact assessment • Environment • Ideology
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