生态语言学视角下语言教材动物话语表征研究

Discursive representations of animals in language textbooks:An ecolinguistic perspective

语言教材作为生态教育的重要载体之一,对学生生态意识的培养及生态行为的引导具有重要意义。本文基于生态语言学视角下的及物性系统,以我国基础教育阶段小学语文教材为研究对象,分析教材中的动物话语表征,探讨其蕴涵的生态观。研究发现:教材建构了作为人的动物、作为观察对象的动物、作为一般类型的动物、作为加害者/受害者的动物、作为研究对象的动物、作为产品的动物、作为保护对象的动物等7种形象;这些动物形象总体上反映了“以人为本”的生态观。研究结果可为语言教材编写和使用提供有益启示。

Language textbooks,as a crucial carrier for environmental education,play a significant role in shaping students'ecological consciousness and guiding their ecological behaviors.Working with the ecological transitivity system,this article conducts an ecolinguistic analysis of the texts in Chinese language textbooks used in elementary schools nation-wide in China to explore what images of animals are represented and to discover their underlying ecological view.The re-sults show that the textbooks represent animals as people,objects of observation,animals in general,perpetrators/passive victims,objects of research,products,and targets of protection.These representations of animals principally reflect a people-oriented ecological view.The results of this study have important implications for the compilation and use of lan-guage texthooks.