The rhetoric of the passive in English

Coetzee, J. M.

doi:10.1515/ling.1980.18.3-4.199

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“…It creates such understanding that this kind of process allows the readers, as well as the author, to hide and rediscover the hidden agent. Hence, this agentless passive particularly occurs more frequently in serious scientific writing than in any other genre (Coetzee, 1980).…”

Section: Types Of Passive Voice Constructionmentioning

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“…Passive construction occurs either as short passive or long passive. Long passive contain a by-phrase which specifies the agent of the action, however there are also exception to the use of by to govern the agentive phrase, i.e the room was permeated with gas and he is known to me (Coetzee, 1980). In principle, the long passive can be replaced by an active clause with the same meaning, yet it will be less appropriate than the passive voice (Biber et al, 2003 of the rest of the clause; and (3) the long passive place initial emphasis on an element of the clause, which is the topic or theme.…”

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“…The sense of objective detachment also appears by employing the non-agentive passive. However, the short passive should not be applied when the agent is actually present, as Coetzee (1980) believed that short passive should not be thought of as derived from the long; short passive should be treated as agentless sentences. What is interesting about this agent device, according to Coetzee, was that it operated as though the derivation of the short passive were via agent deletion from the long passive.…”

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Active and Passive Voice Constructions by Indonesian Student Writers

Yannuar¹,

Shitadevi²,

Basthomi³

et al. 2014

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Author stance, which echoes authors' attitudes, personal thought, and feeling within the text, can be revealed through preference of voice construction. This study aims at examining the quantitative data of active and passive voice construction used in the English Department of State University of Malang students' theses, as well as exploring the implication arising from the issue. The data in this descriptive qualitative study is taken from a corpus of English Department undergraduate theses written in 2011 to 2013. The corpus data and the frequency of both voice constructions of selected Biber's (2004) stance verbs are calculated using Ant.Conc 3.2.4 corpus software. Findings show that the frequency of active voice construction is higher than that of the passive, as much as 64.8% out of 3901 tokens of the stance verb suggest, expect, show, predict, report, believe, hope, allow are in active voice. The most frequent stance verb in active voice constructions is the verb show, while that in passive voice is the verb expect and the least frequent in both voice constructions is the verb predict. This study suggests that the frequent active voice construction found in Indonesian undergraduate theses resembles English native author's writing style. This fact may indicate Indonesian student author's determination to be acknowledged internationally.

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Section: Types Of Passive Voice Constructionmentioning

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Section: Types Of Passive Voice Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Types Of Passive Voice Constructionmentioning

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Active and Passive Voice Constructions by Indonesian Student Writers

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“…E.g. Freidin (1975), Stanley (1975), Langacker & Munro (1975), Kaiman (1976), Bolinger (1975), Coetzee (1980), Beedham (1981). 13.…”

Section: Menachem B Dagut English Department University Of Haifa Moumentioning

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“…15. Coetzee (1980), p. 217, gives the following list: "(i) the agent is unknown to the Speaker, or (iij it is indefinite, or (iii) it is not present in his mind, or (iv) he feels no need to name it because it is known, or (v) he does not wish to name it." To these should be added the rhetorical purpose of foregrounding the action or event itself, see below.…”

Section: Menachem B Dagut English Department University Of Haifa Moumentioning

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A ‘Teaching Grammar’ of the Passive Voice in English

Dagut¹

1985

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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L'enseignement des langues etrangeres, dans sä realisation pratique, demande une grammaire d'apprentissage (teaching grammar) qui ä plusieurs points de vue soit differente d'une grammaire theorique. Une teile grammaire met la fonction communicative du phenomene grammatical en cause au centre. Elle est eclectique et orientee autour de la performance; en plus, en vue de la presence constante de Tinfluence de la langue maternelle de l'eleve sur le processus d'apprentissage de la langue etrangere, eile a aussi une orientation contrastive.Les criteres mentionnes ci-dessus d'une grammaire d'apprentissage sont precises dans cet article ä l'aide d'exemples du passif en anglais. En meme temps, il est demontre qu'une teile grammaire peut contribuer positivement ä la linguistique theorique.

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Franzosi

2020

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The rhetoric of the passive in English

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Active and Passive Voice Constructions by Indonesian Student Writers

Active and Passive Voice Constructions by Indonesian Student Writers

A ‘Teaching Grammar’ of the Passive Voice in English

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