A Corpus-based Ecosophical Analysis of Discourse Produced Around the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
This research explores the Ecosophy of discourse produced around the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The study starts with building a corpus of texts, taken from the official website of the CPEC. The list of 18 key words was made, based on three United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) out of 17 goals. Theoretical framework of Stibbe’s (2015) ecocritical discourse perspective is used to develop the Ecosophy of the CPEC, while analytical framework is based on three UN sustainable development goals outlined in 2015. Corpus linguistics as a methodology is used to undergo quantitative and qualitative analysis. In quantitative analysis, collocates were analyzed by identifying Mutual Information (MI) score. The highest MI score (11.26013) is gained by the collocation named CPEC-Deforestation and the lowest is of CPEC-Water (0.87352) which show that the infrastructure project of the CPEC caused deforestation and less affected water.
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Corpus, CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor), ECDA (Ecological Critical Discourse Analysis), Ecosophy, SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
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(1) Humera Faraz
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Saleem
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Tariq Mehmood
Independent Researcher Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.