Ecostylistics: A Systemic Review of Major Recent Studies
Abstract
. This paper presents a review of major recent contributions in the emergent field of ecostylistics. Moreover, this study deals with the issues, roots, and meanings of ecostylistics. The main focus is on how and why style is combined with eco to become ecostylistics and how language is related to this subject. It also deals with the theoretical and methodological framework of the study. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the main definitions of key terms related to this study. The second section, reveals the major application of ecostylistics frameworks in the analysis of different data, for example, media discourse. Finally, the third section is about previous studies related to ecostylistics in analyzing literary texts poems, fiction and non-fiction works.