Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Fascicolo | 59 | 2023
Articolo | Unveiling the Language of Ideology in China’s Environmental Planning

Unveiling the Language of Ideology in China’s Environmental Planning

Pilot Ecolinguistic Analysis of an Environmental Impact Assessment

Abstract

While predominantly seen as a technical process, environmental planning is in fact largely shaped by cultural and ideological factors. Ecolinguistics offers a coherent approach to analyse these elements, by unearthing their linguistic traces and exposing how they naturalize social-ecological goals. So far, limited efforts have gone into developing tools for a systematic ecolinguistic analysis of Chinese texts informing environmental decision-making. This paper seeks to address this gap, by introducing a novel ecolinguistic framework and the results of its application on a Chinese Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 31 Gennaio 2023 | Accettato: 07 Giugno 2023 | Pubblicato 29 Agosto 2023 | Lingua: en

Keywords PoliticsEnvironmentImpact assessmentEcolinguisticsChineseIdeology


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