ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND ECOLINGUISTICS IN CHINA

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND ECOLINGUISTICS IN CHINA
Course code
LM2660 (AF:398648 AR:212268)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-OR/21
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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This course provides a Chinese perspective on ecolinguistic issues. It focuses on the relationships and interactions between language and ecology through case studies involving languages in China.
Students will learn about different approaches of ecolinguistics. They will develop familarity with the linguistic situations in China and be guided to reflect on the cultural, philosophical, and political aspects of Chinese ecolinguistics.
Enrollment in the MA Programme in Environmental Humanities OR Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa.
The course consists of three main parts. The first part covers selected topics of Chinese environmental humanities. The second part introduces different approaches to ecolinguistics, with special reference to languages in China. The third part discusses ecolinguistic analysis of Chinese environmental texts.
Chang, Chia-ju (ed.). 2019. Chinese environmental humanities: Practices of environing at the margins. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fill, Alwin F. & Hermine Penz (eds.). 2018. The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics. London: Routledge.
Stibbe, Arran. 2021. Ecolinguistics: Language, ecology, and the stories we live by, 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge.
Presentation and oral exam.
Detailed information and instructions will be provided in the beginning of the course.
Lectures and group discussions.
English
oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 16/12/2022