The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Language
Active and passive verbs are a problematic style faces the journalist of news reports ,because sometimes he tries to make agency invisible and he may change the role of participants in the constructions of texts, when the actions come to negative situation or related to political parties or politi...
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Collage of Education Ibn Rushd / University of Baghdad
2018-11-01
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Active and passive verbs are a problematic style faces the journalist of news reports ,because sometimes he tries to make agency invisible and he may change the role of participants in the constructions of texts, when the actions come to negative situation or related to political parties or politicians. The current study aims at : 1- exploring the active and passive forms in written media language and their grammatical structures 2- showing the role and uses of passive forms as one of the techniques used by the journalists . The study has put two hypotheses:
1-active forms are used more than passive in news writing.
2- modal verbs are commonly used by the journalist more than other types. The theoretical part is presented before tackling the practical part of this study ,.Alexander model ( 1997) has been adopted in this study since this model is comprehensive and adequate to achieve the purpose of analysis . After analyzing the data , the results verified the hypotheses. On the basis of findings ,The study has put some results and recommendations .
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| spelling | doaj.art-e2b8b69bf772478880ec08ff42ac09c32022-12-21T21:23:27ZaraCollage of Education Ibn Rushd / University of Baghdadالأستاذ0552-265X2518-92632018-11-01218110.36473/ujhss.v218i1.533The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Languagelect. Sawsan Abdul –Munem Qassim0University of Diyala - College of Engineering Active and passive verbs are a problematic style faces the journalist of news reports ,because sometimes he tries to make agency invisible and he may change the role of participants in the constructions of texts, when the actions come to negative situation or related to political parties or politicians. The current study aims at : 1- exploring the active and passive forms in written media language and their grammatical structures 2- showing the role and uses of passive forms as one of the techniques used by the journalists . The study has put two hypotheses: 1-active forms are used more than passive in news writing. 2- modal verbs are commonly used by the journalist more than other types. The theoretical part is presented before tackling the practical part of this study ,.Alexander model ( 1997) has been adopted in this study since this model is comprehensive and adequate to achieve the purpose of analysis . After analyzing the data , the results verified the hypotheses. On the basis of findings ,The study has put some results and recommendations . https://alustath.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/UJIRCO/article/view/533News , Active, Passive , Reports, Functions |
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| title | The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Language |
| title_full | The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Language |
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| title_short | The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Language |
| title_sort | use of active and passive voice in the news language |
| topic | News , Active, Passive , Reports, Functions |
| url | https://alustath.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/UJIRCO/article/view/533 |
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