| Ecolinguistics Criticism of Farrokhzad’s “I feel pity for the garden” |
| Paper ID : 1098-ICIL |
| Authors |
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Fatemeh Mahmoudi-Tazehkand * No: B1, Qaem1 tower, Nour Street, Yaqchian, Tabriz, Iran |
| Abstract |
| The relation between environment and language is based on the principle that people behave with each other and with nature is influenced by thoughts, concepts, ideologies and worldviews, and these all are formed by language. The critique of ecolinguistics, focused on appraisal patterns of the language, is in the quest of a new forms of language that encourage individuals to protect the world of nature. In other words, as a field of ecolinguistics criticism, in appraisal pattern a subject constantly has positive or negative value in different texts because it has a significant role in the positive or negative formation of public opinion about the environment. This paper, based on ecolinguistics criticism, tends to investigate the relation between language and environment by examining the positive and negative appraisal patterns in Farrokhzad's poem titled 'I feel pity for the garden" and clarifies how the poet uses her green female language to make a link between literature and the environment. The paper also reflects the poet's concern about the destruction of a small garden, a representation of contemporary human perspective to his environment. To do this study, the author has benefited from descriptive-analytical method by use of library resources. |
| Keywords |
| ecolinguistics, appraising patterns, poetry, contemporary poetry |
| Status: Accepted (Oral Presentation) |