La presencia de destinadores y destinatarios en géneros académicos en inglés. El caso de la voz pasiva y los pronombres personales de 1.ª y 2.ª persona

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the use of certain language forms which reveal the presence of the addresser (writer/speaker) and their addressees in pedagogic genres. We particularly focus on passive voice and, correspondingly, the use of personal pronouns in a corpus of educational videos, a fast-growing but not so deeply studied genre so far, as compared to a corpus comprised of textbooks, the traditional pedagogic genre used in university contexts. Both corpora include English texts in the field of engineering which may potentially be used in English for Academic Purposes courses. Our preliminary findings suggest that modality determines, to a great extent, the language forms selected and this fact, in turn, has significant discourse consequences, not only from the point of view of genre analysis but also from the perspective of the teaching of English to Spanish native speakers.