"I don't think education is the answer": A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of plastics discourses in the UK.
"I don't think education is the answer": A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of plastics discourses in the UK.
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10.1515/jwl-2022-0017
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2022-08
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世界各地的生态系统正在被一次性塑料所吞噬，其中大部分来自塑料包装。可重复使用的塑料包装系统已被提出，以应对这一塑料废物危机，但在英国这种系统的吸收仍然非常低。这篇文章利用了一个560万单词的英国英语主题语料库，围绕塑料，包装，再利用和回收来研究消费者对塑料（再）使用的态度。本文运用生态语言学、语料库语言学和认知语言学的方法和见解，评估消费者语言与超市和政府机构等面向公众的机构的语言在多大程度上不同。一个预先定义的生态系统，优先考虑保护，权利，系统思维和公平，不仅用于批判性地评估塑料话语中的叙述，而且还建议围绕塑料和再利用进行更有效和生态有益的交流的策略。本文建议在多学科项目团队中采用生态哲学，并认为生态哲学有助于透明和可重复的话语分析。分析还表明，为了使包装再利用行为发生有意义的变化，很可能需要直接挑战围绕权力、权利和责任的根深蒂固的文化故事。
Ecosystems around the world are becoming engulfed in single-use plastics, the majority of which come from plastic packaging. Reusable plastic packaging systems have been proposed in response to this plastic waste crisis, but uptake of such systems in the UK is still very low. This article draws on a thematic corpus of 5.6 million words of UK English around plastics, packaging, reuse, and recycling to examine consumer attitudes towards plastic (re)use. Utilizing methods and insights from ecolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this article assesses to what degree consumer language differs from that of public-facing bodies such as supermarkets and government entities. A predefined ecosophy, prioritizing protection, rights, systems thinking, and fairness, is used to not only critically evaluate narratives in plastics discourse but also to recommend strategies for more effective and ecologically beneficial communications around plastics and reuse. This article recommends the adoption of ecosophy in multidisciplinary project teams, and argues that ecosophies are conducive to transparent and reproducible discourse analysis. The analysis also suggests that in order to make meaningful change in packaging reuse behaviors, it is highly likely that deeply ingrained cultural stories around power, rights, and responsibilities will need to be directly challenged.