Sökning: "Ecolinguistics"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet Ecolinguistics.
1. Drömmen om ett annat liv : Dokumentärserier om ”livet på bondgården” och dess inverkan på berättelserna som formar vår världsbild
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : The aim of this study is to, from a rhetorical perspective, contribute to the ecolinguistic discipline. This is done by demonstrating which and how underlying narratives are constructed in two Swedish documentary series with the theme "life on a farm". LÄS MER
2. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea : A Marine Discourse
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : The marine environment’s evolving discourse on oil pollution in the High Seas since the 1958 Convention on the High Seas and the Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas is of great significance. This research aims to investigate the changes and developments in this discourse, shedding light on the importance of addressing oil pollution and its impact on the marine environment. LÄS MER
3. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. LÄS MER
4. Who Is to Blame? : An Ecolinguistic Analysis of the Portrayal of Human and Non-Human Animals in the Initial Phase of the Corona Crisis
Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk, kultur och interaktionSammanfattning : The corona virus has spread steadily and led to consequences on a larger scale than anyone could have imagined, and it is not at all surprising that we want to find someone to hold responsible. Who is to blame for this terrible situation that we have to live through? By taking an ecolinguistic approach, primarily inspired by Arran Stibbe (2021), this study explores how human and non-human animals are being blamed for the corona crisis in a corpus based on 15 news articles. LÄS MER
5. An Emerging Climate Change or a Changing Climate Emergency? A corpus-driven discourse study on newspapers published in England
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Sammanfattning : During 2019, it became increasingly popular for countries to declare a climate emergency – often on demand of their citizens. As such, the term ‘climate emergency’ had a significant increase in usage and got dubbed the Word of the Year 2019. LÄS MER
