An Eco-discourse Analysis of <i>Return to Nature</i> from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics

PAN Jie; YUAN Su-rong

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021090018

Volume 38 Issue 2

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PAN Jie, YUAN Su-rong. An Eco-discourse Analysis of Return to Nature from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(2): 185-192. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021090018

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PAN Jie, YUAN Su-rong. An Eco-discourse Analysis of Return to Nature from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(2): 185-192. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021090018

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An Eco-discourse Analysis of Return to Nature from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021090018

PAN Jie^{1, 2
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YUAN Su-rong³

1.
International Programs and Services Office, Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Shanghai 201815, China
2.
College of Education, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 86001, USA
3.
Foreign Languages College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

Received Date: 2021-09-06
Available Online: 2022-04-06
Publish Date: 2022-04-25

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There have been plenty of studies of Return to Nature by Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Jin Dynasty from various perspectives, but few studies have analyzed its ecological implication from linguistic perspectives. Working within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper conducts an ecolinguistic analysis of the poem, focusing on its mood and modality, transitivity system and theme system, and finds that: 1) the imperative mood manifests the “Subject-Object duality” of the poet, with the “Subject_Tao” representing the poet loving nature and the “Object_Tao” representing the poet reluctant to leave the officialdom, and that interrogative mood, declarative mood and high value modal operators are used to show that “Subject_Tao” is admonishing “Object_Tao” to leave the officialdom and return to nature; 2) action, mental and relational processes for ecological attributes indicate the poet’s conation from human to nature, affection for and cognitive assimilation to nature; 3) “Subject_Tao”, nonhuman organism and physical places functioning as theme demonstrates discoursal ecology.
- ecological discourse analysis,
- three metafunctions,
- classic poems,
- Return to Nature

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