Author(s)

Haoshuang Liu ¹, Xiongyong Cheng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Corresponding Author

Haoshuang Liu

ABSTRACT

The ecological environment problem is a common problem at present. Environmental discourse can provide the public with the seriousness of environmental problems and the progress of coping with environmental problems, which is conducive to the promotion of public environmental awareness and the legitimization of the future preventive measures. The study is guided by the proximization theory so as to explore the approach strategies in environmental discourse. The paper tries to expand the application scope of the discourse types of the proximization theory, and finds that the discourse mainly uses the spacial proximization and axiological proximization to depict environmental threat.

KEYWORDS

Environmental discourse, proximization theory, legitimization

CITE THIS PAPER

Haoshuang Liu, Xiongyong Cheng, A Proximization Study of Environmental Discourse under Proximization Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 58-65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060310.

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