Unveiling the Language of Ideology in China’s Environmental Planning
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 goal...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2023-08-01
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Series: | Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale |
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Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/018 |
Summary: | 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.
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ISSN: | 2385-3042 |