Kollokvier i tyska och nederländska: Janine Aloe om diskurser om biologisk mångfald

Seminarium

Datum: tisdag 20 maj 2025

Tid: 13.00 – 14.30

Plats: E509 (och Zoom)

Föredrag av Janine Aloe, DAAD-lektor i tyska, med titeln (på engelska) "Biodiversity discourses in US-American media from an ecolinguistic perspective".

Seminariespråket är engelska. Vänligen kontakta Hanna Henryson (hanna.henryson@tyska.su.se) för mer information och eventuell Zoom-länk!

Abstrakt på engelska

Janine Aloe: Biodiversity discourses in US-American media from an ecolinguistic perspective

This presentation offers an overview of the key findings from my first article, alongside preliminary insights from my second, ongoing study. In my first paper, I examined how the biodiversity crisis is represented in U.S. media, focusing on how species extinction and endangerment are framed in newspaper coverage. Through the prism of Critical Discourse Analysis and ecolinguistics, I explore whether extinction is communicated as a genuine crisis and how human and more-than-human agency is constructed in these narratives. The study highlights dominant framings, ideological underpinnings, and the value systems associated with biodiversity. My aim is to understand the discursive patterns that shape public discourse on vanishing species and the violent practices that contribute to the Sixth Mass Extinction (Kingsford et al., 2009), discussing the cultural and communicative dimensions of ecological crises.

The second part of the presentation introduces my upcoming project, which is currently in its exploratory phase: a corpus-assisted ecolinguistic study. This study investigates the linguistic representation of fungi, trees, and animals in articles from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal between 2022 and 2024. Drawing on collocation and concordance analyses, my study aims to uncover differences in how these three major groups of organisms are represented and which patterns can be detected. It examines how far mass media discourses reproduce anthropocentric thinking. Particular attention is paid to how nonhuman life is either animated as agentive or rendered passive and marginal.

Together, these two research projects explore how language and media mediate our relationship with the nonhuman world. By analyzing the cultural and discursive representations of biodiversity, the studies contribute to a broader conversation about how narrative shifts could promote more ecologically sustainable and ethical ways of coexisting with the more-than-human world.

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Senast uppdaterad: 14 maj 2025

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