Representation of Natural World in Quran; an ecolinguistic approach

The current trend of increasing environmental inequality, the process of its degradation, and the culture of encouraging more consumption suggest the need for a change in the human attitude towards nature and his relation to the environment. Such a change needs the emergence of a society that has analyzed, recognized and sought to change its discourse stories. Taking refuge in the discourse stories of the holy books, including the Holy Qur’an, provides the ground for a change of attitude. The main question of this research is “what is man's relation with nature and both of them with God in the Holy Qur'an and how are these relations manifested in the language of the Qur'an?” The basic presumption is that the lack of attention to spirituality in the relationship between humans and the environment is the root of many destructions and destructions. The research method is discourse analysis in the framework of ecological linguistics based on the analysis of linguistic "stories". The term "story" here is not of the usual type of novels and anecdotes but is the cognitive structure behind the discourses. The linguistic analysis method is also the desired mechanism of environmental linguistics based on the eight components proposed by Stibi (2015). The research aims to show how the Holy Qur’an condemns the consumeristic human identity by using language and presenting linguistic/discourse stories and promotes a monotheistic worldview. The results of the analysis show that in the text of the Holy Qur'an, a monotheistic worldview prevails, according to which man is recognized as a trustee in nature and does not have the right to enter and occupy its parts without condition. It is also proved that all elements of nature have intrinsic and moral value. The innovation of the research is that it uses a specific linguistic approach and analyzes the discourse.