Ecological Discourse Analysis for Attitude Resources in President Xi Jinping’s Discourses

Abstract

Nowadays, ecological problems arouses the universal concern of people all over the world. President Xi Jinping’s discourses can fully reflect the ecological value orientation of China’s policy. Based on the EDA paradigm and following the ecosophy view of “diversity and harmony, interaction and symbiosis”, this paper conducts an in-depth study on the attitude resources in President Xi Jinping’s discourses, and probes into the ecological idea and ecological value orientation embodied by the attitude resources. The findings are as follows: (1) In President Xi Jinping’s discourses, the judgment resources are the most, the appreciation resources the second, the affect resources the least; (2) The attitude resources of President Xi Jinping’s discourses show beneficial and ambivalent ecological value orientation, but no destructive one; (3) The attitude resources in President Xi Jinping’s discourses reflect the ecological idea of “ecological priority and harmonious coexistence”.