Ecological Discourse Analysis of TED Talks on Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Transitivity

Abstract

Ecological Discourse Analysis is one of the main research approaches in Ecolinguistics, which focuses on the role of language in the ecosystem. Its purpose is to raise people’s ecological awareness, enhance their sense of ecological responsibility, and take action to save the ecological crisis. Given this, this study employs the transitivity system as the theoretical framework, guided by the ecosophy of “diversity and harmony, interactive coexistence”. It employs the UAM Corpus Tool 3.0 software to conduct a transitivity analysis of six TED talks on environmental protection, revealing the ecological ideas contained in their discourse.