Causal chaining and the active/passive ratio in academic discourse

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Causal chaining and the active/passive ratio in academic discourse

Original language description

In this contribution, a number of constructions of the type X CAUSE Y (and its morpho-syntactic variants) is investigated under the perspective that the causer and the caused (and perhaps the causee) do not only stand in a causal relationship but also inan analogical relationship, i.e. the domains of causer and caused are analogically linked. For this end, a corpus of academic texts from the natural sciences was queried and the frequencies and domains analyzed. The findings may help to improve understanding the rationale behind causal chaining and facilitate cause-effect comprehension for the reader due to the shared knowledge analogical mapping (and inferencing) is based on.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Discourse and Interaction

ISSN

1802-9930

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

21-34

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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