Unraveling The Ecological Perspective Of Green Discourse: A Critical Study Of Newspaper Articles

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the language of newspaper articles within the purpose to explore the constructive meanings of green discourse [1]employed in those articles from an ecological perspective. However, the main objective of this study has been to trace the language features that the speaker used to highlight the importance of green environment. Fairclough's (1995) notion of critical discourse analysis has been applied as the framework of this study. Meanwhile, the sample has been comprised of ten articles chosen by making the use of purposive sampling. The findings revealed that newspaper articles play an important role in shaping the attitude of the people towards environment by making them aware of the impact which climate change may have on their lives.