 |
customer@davidpublishing.com |
 |
3275638434 |
 |
 |
| Paper Publishing WeChat |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
CHEN Jianhong
Full-Text PDF
XML 77 Views
DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2026.07.002
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
This paper, based on the ecological philosophy of “Diversity and Harmony, Interaction and Co-existence” and guided by Halliday’s Transitivity Theory, conducts an ecological discourse analysis of the college English text “Man in the Realm of Nature.” The analysis reveals that while ecologically beneficial processes, ecologically destructive processes and ecologically ambivalent processes can all be found in the text, ecologically beneficial and destructive processes outnumber ecologically ambivalent ones, conveying clear ecological attributes and values. The pedagogical implication is that when teaching ecological discourses, teachers can guide students to identify different ecological attributes reflected by different processes. Further, teachers can help them to promote ecologically beneficial discourses, improve ecologically ambivalent ones, and avoid ecologically destructive ones in their own language use, so that they can enhance their ecological awareness and better fulfill their ecological responsibility as college students.
Transitivity Theory, ecologically beneficial process, ecologically ambivalent process, ecologically destructive process
CHEN Jianhong. A Transitivity Analysis of the Ecological Attributes of Educational Discourse: A Case Study of the College English Text "Man in the Realm of Nature". US-China Foreign Language, July 2026, Vol. 24, No.
7, 252-255 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2026.07.002
Goafly, A. (2002). The representation of nature on the BBC World Service. Text, 22(1), 1-27．
Halliday, M. (1990). New ways of meaning: A challenge to applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics, 6(13), 7-36.
He, W., & Wei, R. (2017). The construction of a transitivity analysis model for international ecological discourse. Modern Foreign Languages, 40(5), 597-607. (in Chinese)
Jia, C. W. (2023). An exploration of the ecological discourse analysis model for educational discourse: A case study of college English intensive reading textbooks. Modern English, 10, 62-65. (in Chinese)
Zeng, Z., Sui, T., & Wang, X. (2025). An ecological discourse analysis of college English textbooks from the perspective of transitivity in the context of ecological civilization education: A case study of New College English Integrated Course. Journal of Chengdu Technological University, 28(4), 89-93 & 99. (in Chinese)