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Title A Corpus-Based Study of Green Discourses in UNEP: An Eco-critical Perspective

Author(s) Muhammad Sheraz Khan

Abstract As ecolinguistics is an emerging field, it applies different linguistic frameworks for the analysis of environmental texts, highlighting hidden ideologies. These ideologies are cognitive models that have an effect on human behaviours, and people are unaware of their effects. There is less research that investigates the global plastic pollution discourse from different nonpolitical organisations in this regard. This study explores the ecological stories that are propagated through speeches within the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) by employing a corpus-based approach. For this purpose, 23 speeches were selected, resulting in a corpus of 20021 words. This study focusses on the discursive strategies that are applied within the speeches at UNEP, aiming to analyse the representation and formation of plastic pollution discourses. By using an eco-critical lens, this research has focused on the ways in which UNEP‟s text contributes to forming global environmental awareness and policy frameworks related to combating plastic pollution. The researcher has used a mixedmethods approach and Stibbe‟s (2015) analytical framework to analyse the data critically. The findings reveal that grasping the green discourses that are propagated within the UNEP is important for understanding the global environmental narrative and speeding up the formulation of decisions that contribute to the formulation of environmental awareness and policy frameworks at the global level. By analysing UNEP‟s text from an eco-critical perspective and applying corpus, the research analyses the data qualitatively and supports the qualitative data with quantitative analysis as well, which shows that identity formation strategies like use of pronouns, different frames and metaphors, erasure (the void, the mask, the trace), evaluations (good or bad), conviction, salience (demonstratives, lexical choices, parallelism, etc.) have been applied in the formation of complex environmental rhetoric, which has an influence on shaping attitudes and policies effectively related to the environment.

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Faculty Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Department English (Multan Campus)

Language English

Publication Date 2025-06-12

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