A Contrastive Study of the Passive Voice in Journal Articles in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Lu Lu
Abstract
The passive voice is an important construction for packaging information. Many textbooks, style manuals or academic papers, however, offer different or even contradictory advice on the use of passives. Previous findings show that passives exhibit disciplinary variation, thus special treatment should be given to different disciplines. However, even within the same discipline, such as linguistics, there are different types of academic writing, namely theoretical articles versus empirical ones. To test whether a difference in the use of passives exists between these two sub-disciplines, the passives in articles sampled from Language and Applied Linguistics are counted and compared. The results show that applied linguistics articles demonstrate a significantly higher (Sig. = .000, p < .001) occurrence of passives than theoretical ones.
©2013 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Masthead
- Articles
- A Study of the Middle Construction in English with Special Reference to Learner’s Dictionaries
- Authentic or Artificial Materials: The Effects of Material-Types on L2 Motivation
- Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future
- A Contrastive Study of the Passive Voice in Journal Articles in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- The Effect of Language Proficiency on Focus on Form in Doing Dictogloss Task
- A Study of the Impacts of Participating in the “CCTV CUP” English Public Speaking Contest on the Contestants
- An ERP Study on Metaphor Comprehension in the Bilingual Brain
- Chinese Abstracts
