Language as Ecology: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Narratives in Khan’s Thinner Than Skin & in Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

Abstract

The research unravels the interrelations between the concept of ecology and language. The study explores the environmentalism in literary fiction. The research is based on ecological narratives in Khan’s Thinner Than Skin and Robinson’s The Ministry for the future. A deep comparative environmental analysis is conducted to explore different language discourses in selected novels . The study aims to find out destructive , beneficial and ambivalent language discourses to in order to mark the representation of ecological narratives in present study . For this regard , Stibbe’s model of Ecolinguistics is employed in both selected novel. The comparative qualitative study is used as research design for following research. Through purposive sampling and content analysis techniques, ecological language discourses are analyzed. The findings of the study shows in novel Thinner Than Skin , destructive environmental discourse is discussed broadly, while in novel , The Ministry for the future, ambivalent discourse is prominent.