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Peer reviewedCurnow, Timothy Jowan – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Analyzes the rhetorical functions carried out by the selection of voice--active, passive, or "se"-passive--in biological research articles in Spanish. The author compares these rhetorical functions with those found in French and English scientific papers and on the basis of this comparison, suggests the existence of some universals. (18…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
