The language of cultural ecopoetics : a linguistic articulation of ecological framing in The Arrival of Monsoon
Eco-linguistics is a thriving research field which integrates the language-environment nexus in an interdisciplinary array of dimensions. Nevertheless, the linguistic analysis of ecopoetics in Pakistani context is an underexplored domain of inquiry. The present research scrutinises the linguisti...
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| description | Eco-linguistics is a thriving research field which integrates the language-environment nexus in an interdisciplinary
array of dimensions. Nevertheless, the linguistic analysis of ecopoetics in Pakistani context is an underexplored
domain of inquiry. The present research scrutinises the linguistic pattern of literary environmental text, which employs
the poetic register to deal with the subject of the human-nature interface, and the construction of ecocritical framing
within its specific context. The poem, The Arrival of Monsoon (1985) by Taufiq Rafat, is selected as it fulfills Buell
(1995)’s criteria of ‘Environmental Text’. The poem is analysed first in terms of processes and circumstances using
Halliday’s model of transitivity analysis and then employing Arran Stibbe’s concept of ecological framing to unveil
its system of meanings. The results demonstrate the foregrounding of material actions and events in the text. The
selected poem’s text has an explicit emphasis on the existence and characteristics of Nature in comparison to human
beings and this is achieved categorically with circumstances of location. These circumstances of location hold
significant cultural images and thus help in assigning the text its ecosensitive stance while locating it within a specific
cultural context i.e., Pakistan. The dualistic frame of Nature being both invigorating and dominating is manifested in
the poem. The study will be significant to emerging writers, teachers and students who want to explore the themes of
human-nature interaction in their writings. |
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| spelling | ukm.eprints-206822022-12-11T00:50:12Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20682/ The language of cultural ecopoetics : a linguistic articulation of ecological framing in The Arrival of Monsoon Riaz, Shahida Mahmood, Rasib Habib, Akhter Eco-linguistics is a thriving research field which integrates the language-environment nexus in an interdisciplinary array of dimensions. Nevertheless, the linguistic analysis of ecopoetics in Pakistani context is an underexplored domain of inquiry. The present research scrutinises the linguistic pattern of literary environmental text, which employs the poetic register to deal with the subject of the human-nature interface, and the construction of ecocritical framing within its specific context. The poem, The Arrival of Monsoon (1985) by Taufiq Rafat, is selected as it fulfills Buell (1995)’s criteria of ‘Environmental Text’. The poem is analysed first in terms of processes and circumstances using Halliday’s model of transitivity analysis and then employing Arran Stibbe’s concept of ecological framing to unveil its system of meanings. The results demonstrate the foregrounding of material actions and events in the text. The selected poem’s text has an explicit emphasis on the existence and characteristics of Nature in comparison to human beings and this is achieved categorically with circumstances of location. These circumstances of location hold significant cultural images and thus help in assigning the text its ecosensitive stance while locating it within a specific cultural context i.e., Pakistan. The dualistic frame of Nature being both invigorating and dominating is manifested in the poem. The study will be significant to emerging writers, teachers and students who want to explore the themes of human-nature interaction in their writings. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20682/1/54661-194025-3-PB.pdf Riaz, Shahida and Mahmood, Rasib and Habib, Akhter (2022) The language of cultural ecopoetics : a linguistic articulation of ecological framing in The Arrival of Monsoon. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 28 (3). pp. 52-68. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1543 |
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