环境演讲的生态话语分析

An Ecological Discourse Analysis of Environmental Speech

生态话语分析能够反映语言与环境之间的关系,从而唤醒人们的生态意识。本文采用生态话语分析的方法,主要从系统功能语言学中的及物性和评价资源两个方面对一篇TED环境类演讲中的语言特点进行分析,以探讨演讲中人与自然、演讲者与听众之间的生态关系。研究发现演讲中大量物质过程和关系过程强调了人与环境在自然界有同等重要的地位;演讲中对海洋所做贡献的赞赏性描写与对人类破坏行为的谴责性描写揭示了以人类为中心的行为对环境的危害;情态动词和人称代词的使用在演讲者和听众之间营造了和谐的生态关系。

Ecological Discourse Analysis reflects the relationship between language and environment,thus can awake people's ecological awareness.Adopting the method of Ecological Discourse Analysis,this paper conducted an analysis of an environmental speech of TED to explore the ecological relationship between human and nature,speaker and listeners from the perspective of Transitivity and Appraisal Theory.The study shows that a large number of material processes and relational processes emphasize the equal importance of human and environment in nature.The admiration of the ocean’s contribution and the condemnation of human destructive activity reveal the harm of human-centered behavior to the environment.And modal verbs and personal pronouns create an ecological relationship between the speaker and listeners.