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Publication details [#52519]

Miller, Michelle D. and Alexandra K. Frazer. 2009. Double Standards in Sentence Structure: Passive Voice in Narratives Describing Domestic Violence. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28 (1) : 62–71.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
aggression | gender | mass media | narrative | passive construction
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study argues that writers specifically prefer the passive voice to describe male-on-female domestic violence.