The Development of Ecological Identities in Children’s Books
A Linguistic Approach to Character Positioning as Eco-Rebels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248181 |
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| Authors | Corinna Lüdicke (0009-0004-5362-9889, Technische Universität Darmstadt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 58 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h14030058 |
| OpenAlex | W4408373087 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Eco-rebels can provide readers a role model that encourages sustainable thinking and action in everyday life. The protagonists in ecological children’s and young adult literature (CYL) are mostly ignorant at the beginning. They learn as the story progresses and develop into environmentally conscious individuals who are taken seriously and actively committed to protecting their environment. This article would like to present a linguistic method for analyzing how readers are guided in ecological CYL, allowing them to follow and understand the protagonist’s change towards becoming an eco-rebel. This study hypothesizes that the development of an ecological identity, although an individual evolution in the story, is a pattern of ecological CYL. The possibilities for identification that a text offers its reader must be considered as crucial for the experiences gained within the fiction framework to influence real consciousness and development processes. In this context, Bamberg’s identity dilemmatic spaces are used for the analysis, allowing the construction of identity in storytelling to be made tangible. These identity dilemmatic spaces have been expanded to include linguistic categories. The construction of the figure of the eco-rebel can thus be analyzed according to different linguistically based or narrative-based aspects like speech markings or the development of an agenda
Biology · Character development · Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Literacy, Media, and Education · Mathematics · Philosophy · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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