Passive and perspective / / Louise H. Cornelis.

• Superior document: Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Cornelis, Louise H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The passive construction in Dutch represents a long-standing problem both in linguistics and in written communications. This book proposes a new analysis of the passive in Dutch, integrating insights from theoretical (especially cognitive) linguistics and rhetoric/composition. The point of departure...

Table of Contents

• 1 Introducing the search for passive and perspective
• 1.1 Kinderjaren
• 1.2 Avoid the passive? A dilemma
• 1.3 Terminology
• 1.4 Outline of this book; material used
• 2 The functionalists' difficulties with the Dutch passive
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Topicality of the participants
• 2.3 Related proposals: a search for 'perspective'; agent not central
• 2.4 Foreground, background and transitivity
• 2.5 Two discourse functions? 3 The whole is more than the sum of its parts
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Analyzability: the sum of the parts
• 3.3 Worden and the presencee of the causer
• 3.4 Passives and their active counter-parts
• 3.5 Impersonal passives
• 3.6 A schema for the passive
• 3.7 Conclusion, hypothesis
• 4 Door and its causers
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The lexical semantics of door: a family resemblance structure
• 4.3 Characteristics of the overt causer
• 4.4 Are (passives with) overt causers different? 4.5 Conclusion
• 5 The passive in three types of text
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 The passive in policy papers
• 5.3 The passive in soccer reports
• 5.4 The Passive in Computer Manuals
• 5.5 Conclusion for the passive and its meaning in specific texts
• 5.6 Final remarks
• 6 Polyphony: percolation with passives of P-predicates
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 P-predicates, percolation and polyphony
• 6.3 Passive P-predicates in the EC
• 6.4 Passive P-predicates in the INL corpus: a replication
• 6.5 Experiment: percolation and argumentative direction
• 6.6 Conclusion: the argumentative effect of the passive
• 7 Results and their consequences for theory and practice
• 7.1 Results: the passive's discourse functions
• 7.2 Analyzing and recommending the passive
• 7.3 Consequences for passive theory
• 7.4 Conclusion
• 8 Reflection and final remarks
• 8.1 One meaning, many functions
• 8.2 The argument for the passive's meaning
• 8.3 Dutch and English
• 8.4 Suggestions for further research
• Literature
• Author index
• Appendix 1 The policy points of SIW (section 5.2)
• Appendix 2 Tables for section 5.3.2: Passives in the Ajax-articles in Het Parool and the NRC
• Appendix 3 Context of example (6) in 6.3.1 (EC 35523-35536)
• Appendix 4 Translation of the items in section 6.5.2.