理论语言学与应用语言学期刊论文中被动句使用情况的对比研究(英文)

A Contrastive Study of the Passive Voice in Journal Articles in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

被动句是信息包装的重要手段。然而,很多课本、写作手册或学术论文对被动句的使用给出了截然不同甚至相互矛盾的用法指导。前人的研究成果表明,被动句的使用呈现出学科间差异。因而,不同的学科需要区别对待。但是,即使在同一学科(如:语言学)中,也有不同类型的文本,即理论文本和实证文本两大类。为了探究被动句的使用是否在这两类文本间产生差异,研究者对《语言》和《应用语言学》这两本期刊进行抽样,并对被动句在这两类文本中的使用频率进行了计算和比较。结果显示,被动句在应用语言学文本中的出现频率显著高于理论语言学文本(Sig.=.000,p<.001)。

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.