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Title "Towards an Integrative Linguistic Ecosophy: An Analysis of Selected 21st Century Novels"

Author(s) Amna

Abstract This study attempts to formulate an ecosophy by analyzing climate change in the fictive novels from the writers of different countries by following some selected strategies given by Arran Stibbe (2015). These strategies are applied within the theoretical context of The Metaphor Theory (Johnson & Lakoff, 1989) and Social Representation Theory (Rateauet. et al, 2012). Data consist of 4 novels. Two of them are taken from the Global South countries i.e. Pakistan and India and remaining two are from the Global North countries i.e. The United States of America and Australia. All the selected novels get published in 21st century. The focus of this study includes the presence or absence of facticity patterns, use of metaphor and the type of discourses produced. It also includes the effects created by making use of the selected three different strategies. The findings point to the existence of all of the strategies. Most commonly used strategy is ‘facticity patterns’. All of the writers show their main attention on describing the facts with full certainty and clarity. As far as the second strategy of metaphor is concerned, there is very limited use of metaphors. Climate change is compared with horrible things like hell and devil. In order to analyze the ideology and type of discourses produced by the writers, this work undertakes a running ecosophy that goes with the principles of ecoresistance and eco-resilience. The ideologies of the selected works do not align with the selected ecosophy which means the discourses are destructive in nature. In aligned with the main aim to the study, my work formulates a unified ecosophy that “Eco-diversity is actually eco-inclusivity”. All of the novels foreground the causes of climate change i.e. global warming and pollution but they do not go for prescribing a proper solution for it. They just report their observations that are actually happening all over the world and we ourselves are practically experiencing them. The study suggests tracing other strategies in different fictional works.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2024-11-14

Subject Linguistics

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