Ecological Discourse Analysis of Environmental News Reports: A Case Study of China Daily (2022)

As an emerging discipline, ecolinguistics has been of considerable interest to scholars at home and abroad in different fields, with the deterioration global ecological situation improvement people’s awareness. Ecolinguistics should be concerned not only studies on relationship among human, nature society, but also language itself, such as sound, form meaning. Therefore, taking a theoretical framework attitude system, subsystem Appraisal Theory, this paper will analyze how attitudinal resources are distributed then reveal meaning hidden ideology embodied news reports well explore environmental affect human awareness environment terms selectively collected from China Daily 2022.