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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Main Authors: Brombal, Daniele, Szeto, Pui Yiu, Conti, Sergio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2023-08-01
Series:Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/018
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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.
ISSN:2385-3042