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Title The Ecosophy of Beneficial Discourse: A Corpus- Assisted Analysis of selected Blogs on Environment

Author(s) Zarak Zeeshan

Abstract This study investigates blogs related to environmental issues published on the forum of International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The interest was to trace diversity and complexity within beneficial discourse (Arran 2015), taken, otherwise, as uniform or monolithic. For conceptual grounding, Guattari’s views about internal diversity have been drawn upon. The study uses multifarious landscape of digital environmental discourses, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies tailored for textual data from the selected blogs. The analysis was conducted using AntConc software to identify different ecosophical positions, and thematic congruences in the online environmental discourses. Eighty blogs having beneficial discourse were selected following purposive sampling technique. The results portray a picture of ecological positions that are so varied as theorized by Guattari in his ‘deep ecology’ which views perspectives as human-environment relation as being a sum of internally complex, inconsistent and conflicting positions. The result showed positional diversity reflecting the complex relationship between human and nature contrary to the conception of beneficial discourse as a uniform expression. The insights generated have implications for environmental discourses, decision-making and future studies since beneficial discourse has been conceptualized as uniform, whereby positional multiplicity is conventionally overlooked or at least underestimated.

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Language English

Publication Date 2025-05-08

Subject English Linguistics

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