Jargon and the Passive Voice: Prescriptions and Proscriptions for Scientific Writing

Jargon and the Passive Voice: Prescriptions and Proscriptions for Scientific Writing
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行话和被动语态:科学写作的处方和禁令

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1992
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通讯作者:
A. M. Wilkinson
A. M. Wilkinson
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关于行话和被动语态的科学写作处方是基于假定通用的写作原则。他们没有考虑到语言随修辞环境的不同而变化,科学家向同行科学家报告他们的研究,以及科学语言的简化更多地是翻译而不是同义词。行话,即科学术语,对于指定该语言没有名称的新实体至关重要。它有利于经济以及科学研究所需的准确性和精密度。被动语态是不可避免的,因为科学家将他们的研究主题作为客体来关注。禁止被动语态和科学术语的根源在于科学家们希望普通读者能够理解他们的写作。
Prescriptions for scientific writing about jargon and the passive voice are based on principles of writing presumed to be universal. They do not take into account that language varies with rhetorical setting, that scientists report their research to peer scientists, and that simplification of scientific language is more often translation than synonymy. Jargon, i.e., scientific terminology, is essential for designating new entities for which the language has no name. It makes for economy and for the accuracy and precision required in scientific research. The passive voice is unavoidable because scientists focus on the subject of their research as objects. The proscription of the passive voice and scientific jargon is rooted in the expectation that scientists write so as to be understood by the general reader.
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(87)83358-1
发表时间: 1987
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Waugh,RE
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