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Title ECOLINGUISTIC DISCURSIVITIES FOR A GREENER PAKISTAN IN SINGLE NATIONAL CURRICULUM, 2020

Author(s) Gulzar Fatima

Abstract The world is currently facing weather severities in the form of heavy rainfall, or no rain fall, tornadoes, floods and many other catastrophes specifically in Pakistan. As a human being, we have to look for the core reasons which trigger such natural disasters leading towards many causalities. One reason of this can be humans’ irresponsible attitudes towards nature. This issue can be fixed if our generation learns and study ecofriendly discourses and ecocentric narratives as a part of their curriculum. The then Government of Pakistan initiated to introduce a single national curriculum for all public and private institutes in Pakistan. There arises a need to analyze this curriculum in terms of its ecological narratives. The current study aims to analyze SNC published English textbooks of grade I to V using Arran Stibbe’s four ecolinguistic stories of Erasure, metaphor, appraisal and salience. The purpose of current study is to examine the extent of environmental awareness and ecosophy in English language textbooks of Single National Curriculum through ecolinguistic lens. This study has also used the framework of social semiotic theory of multimodal discourse by Kress and Van Leewan in consideration of analyzing visuals from these textbooks. The findings have shown that these books have ambivalent discourse to present for the learners. The linguistic choices of the author do not precisely incline towards one side, rather they present ecocentric as well as anthropocentric views, with majority of ecofriendly narratives. The ecosophy developed with the integration of these two theories is also ambivalent. These narratives significantly contribute in shaping the perception of young readers’ minds towards their environment and indicating a need for more deliberate inclusion of ecocentric content.

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Publication Date 2025-07-08

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