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A Functional Approach to Agentful Passive Construction in English

Author: DuJuan
Tutor: ZhangKeDing
School: Henan University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Adaptation Theory Agentive passive structure Discourse - Pragmatic function
CLC: H314
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2006
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Abstract


Verschueren (1999) the Pragmatics functional overview of the language (any one), and a new perspective for the understanding and interpretation of pragmatics Adaptation Theory. To Adaptation Theory that language is used in the process of constantly language selection process, and these choices can occur at any level of the language, of course, also choose the passive structure column, so this article to conform to the theory as the theoretical basis of the facilities things passive structure of discourse - pragmatic functions. This paper consists of six parts, each part of the main contents are as follows. The first chapter briefly describes why the topics of this paper, the theoretical framework, research methods and corpus. In this thesis, Verschueren's Adaptation Theory as a theoretical framework, research agentive passive structure of discourse - pragmatic functions. Mainly uses qualitative research methods corpus mainly from Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter written by and Shen Li, Zhu Pei Hao editor of the \Conducted a brief review of the second chapter of the passive structure and its function, and elaborated the thesis research ideas. Chapter exhaustively explained Adaptation Theory and build a theoretical framework of this paper. The paper by describing the one hand, passive sentences is relative to the active sentences variant sentence; discourse itself, on the other hand is also context, to prove the relationship between passive sentences in discourse and discourse is a context - the mutual relationship of the structure of the dynamic, so selected in Discourse passive structure is a responsive manner. Chapter passive structure simple classification. In this thesis, the passive structure is divided into Be Ved Get Ved, Have O Ved and middle construction. And clearly the object of this paper, that is subordinate to Be Ved structure agentive passive structure. The fifth chapter is the core of this dissertation. Adaptation Theory of the agentive passive structure six Discourse - language function analysis in specific discourse interpretation, which reads as follows: ● Thematic highlights conform to the structure of the object focus with the end of the co-occurrence of Adaptation Theory mentioned in one of the four research perspective, it involves not just the \Siewierska (1984:221) has pointed out that the most typical ingredient is able to act as a subject and theme table doer noun phrase. The agentive passive structure will table the doer and affected components normal order of adjustments, and so in

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