Eco-Linguistics & Literary Futures: Voices on a Warming Planet
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https://doi.org/10.55559/fgr.v1i3.19Keywords:
Eco-linguistics, Climate change discourse, Environmental literature,, Linguistic ecology,, Literary activism.Abstract
In this study, we look at eco-linguistics and current environmental literature, focusing on how language use and writing respond to the problem of climate change. The field of eco-linguistics looks at how language, thought, and the natural world are linked. It looks at how biological settings both make language and change it. It's also a place where people can talk about and think critically about how people affect the environment, how the environment is changing, and what the future of the world might be like. Environmental writing includes songs, stories, articles, and science fiction. This study looks at how literary works use metaphors, story frameworks, and words to make people more aware, get them to act, and rethink what a sustainable future could look like. Eco-critical theories, critical discourse analysis, and thematic literary analysis are all used together in this study to look at works by authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler. This study talks a lot about how words can hurt the world and help it get better. The paper makes the case that eco-linguistics and creative expression can be used together to make ways to fight climate change and hold on to hope. It does this by looking at how natural quiet, chaos, and new ideas show up in texts. There are new conversations going on in the fields of environmental arts and language ecology because this study shows that literary options are important places to think creatively and act on the environment. It is stressed at the end of the paper how important it is to use language and literature together to solve environmental problems and get people to care for the world.
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