生态话语分析的缘起、目标、原则与方法

On the origin, aims, principles and methodology of eco-discourse analysis

在全球生态问题日渐突出的大背景下,生态话语分析越来越受到研究者的关注,更多的语言学家尝试通过语言研究解决社会和生态问题。生态话语分析与话语分析紧密相连,但不仅仅是话语分析的分支,它有自己的分析目标、原则、方法和主体影响因子,这些可以追溯到M.A.K.Halliday有关语言和生态系统整体性、系统性、选择性和进化性的思想。生态话语分析利用语言在构建现实过程中的能动作用推动生态系统中人与人、人与其他物种、人与自然以及语言与生态之间的和谐,促进"思"和"行"的生态语言学化。本文尝试通过对生态话语问题的讨论,勾画生态话语分析的目标、原则与方法。

With the rapid escalation of eco-environment issues, eco-discourse analysis is attracting increasing attention, attempting to solve social and ecological problems by studying language. With its own aims,principles, methodology and subjectivity which can be traced back to Halliday s holistic, systematic,selective and evolving ideas on language and the ecosystem, eco-discourse analysis is closely related to discourse analysis, but not a branch of it. This line of analysis helps enhance the harmonious relationship between human beings, between human and other species, between human and nature, and between language and the ecosystem by reference to the agentive role of language in constructing reality, with a view to making human beings think and act ecolinguistically. By discussing relevant eco-discourse problems, this paper attempts to outline the aims, principles and methodology of eco-discourse analysis.