Author(s)

Shuxin Liu

Corresponding Author

Shuxin Liu

Abstract

This present study is widely under the framework of ecolinguistics, and narrowly following Halliday’s ecolinguistic notion, just to explore whether some economic expressions like green economy cause certain side-effects on the environment people have been living. Or in other words, it will be testified whether those economic expressions are of ecological applicability to the construction of well-balanced ecology. Basing on COCA, the present study has been conducted to answer: (a) whether certain expressions, GREEN ECONOMY has been existing in the corpus of coca and how the frequency is; and (b)whether such expression had been of ecological appliability to reshape people’s minds to avoid causing effects on the ecology. The result shows: (a) the expression of GREEN ECONOMY has been occurring at the frequency of 63 during the year of 1990 to the year of 2017, and within the year-period of 1990 to 2004, the frequency of the expression is zero. And (b) GREEN ECONOMY is metaphorical expression of some applicability to the construction of ecology for the plant-sense of “green”. While due to the immature-sense of “green”, such re-expression of GREEN ECONOMY is of needs to avoid such ambiguity caused by immature-sense.

Keywords

Ecolinguistics; Metaphor; Green Economy; Ecological Appliability