Abstract This article presents an ecostylistic analysis of the use of metaphor and framing in The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, two lectures by the Victorian polymath John Ruskin. The metaphors and frames identified and examined here are those triggered by the two title words ‘storm’ and ‘cloud’. The overall purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the ‘storm-and-cloud’ metaphors and frames are beneficial discursive strategies urging us humans to preserve the ecological structures all living beings rely on. Since they are key practices in the text, the entire discourse conveyed by the lectures can also be defined as beneficial. Furthermore, a comparison of the metaphors and frames catalogued in the three databases, Master Metaphor List, Metalude and MetaNet Metaphor Wiki, reveals that these are deployed in an innovative and distinctive way in the lectures. Finally, while ecolinguistic metaphor and framing investigation mostly discusses destructive and ambivalent metaphors and frames about nature, this article, which instead considers beneficial discursive strategies, strives to make an analytical contribution to an undeveloped ecolinguistic and ecostylistic research area.

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维多利亚时代的环境问题：对拉斯金《十九世纪风暴云》中隐喻和框架的生态风格研究

摘要 本文对维多利亚时代博学家约翰·拉斯金 (John Ruskin) 的两场演讲《十九世纪的风暴云》中隐喻和框架的使用进行了生态风格分析。这里识别和检查的隐喻和框架是由两个标题词“风暴”和“云”触发的。本研究的总体目的是证明“风暴和云”的隐喻和框架是有益的话语策略，敦促我们人类保护所有生物所依赖的生态结构。由于它们是文本中的关键实践，因此讲座传达的整个话语也可以被定义为有益的。此外，比较了三个数据库中的隐喻和框架，Master Metaphor List, Metalude 和 MetaNet Metaphor Wiki，揭示了这些在讲座中以创新和独特的方式部署。最后，虽然生态语言学隐喻和框架调查主要讨论了关于自然的破坏性和矛盾的隐喻和框架，但本文考虑有益的话语策略，力求对未开发的生态语言学和生态风格学研究领域做出分析贡献。