A Discursive Study of Xi Jinping's Speeches on Ecological Civilization from the Perspective of Marxist Ecological Thought
The profound ecological view contained in Marxism is important for guiding and solving the current ecological crisis across the world.In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that"What we are doing today to build an ecological civilization will benefit generations to come.We should have a strong commitment to socialist ecological civilization and work to develop a new model of modernization with humans developing in harmony with nature".This study is based on the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics,combined with Marxist ecological thought,and uses General Secretary Xi Jinping's speeches about"ecological civilization"as a corpus to explore Marxist ecological thought in the discourse on ecological civilization.It has been found that the discourse about ecological civilization constructs human beings as playing the major role in the process of ecological civilization construction through the operation of various variables in the context,as well as the harmonious relationships among the various participants,which imbues the discourse with strong authority and advances its popularity.This study is expected to provide a theoretical framework as a reference for the analysis of ecological civilization discourse.