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Swales And Feak's Language Analysis

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I use the Swales and Feak’s (2012) language analysis feature to analyze the article called “Top marginal taxation and economic growth”. In this article, the writers mention that “This article aims at contributing to the ongoing debate by exploring the relationship between top marginal taxation on personal income and economic growth on a sample of 18 OECD countries over the period 196-2009” (Mailasi & Robert, 2018, p.2157). In this sentence, instead of using the first-person pronoun, the writers use “the article” as the subject. The writers want readers to focus more on their research than on themselves (Swales.J.M. & Feak, 2012). Because Accounting is a neutral subject. Accountants use objective data to persuade others. Therefore, accounting related articles need to have a more neutral attitude and try to avoid subjective assumptions. …show more content…

& Feak, 2012). Swales and Feak (2012) raise several methods to use the negative forms, which are “no”, “little”, “not…any” and “not...much”. In this sentence, “There is, however, little evidence that reverse causality could actually be an important driver of this article’s results” (Mailasi & Robert, 2018, p.2161). Although “little” and “not much” have the same meaning, the authors use “little” rather than “not…much” to make the expression more concise, because if the author use “little” it will only count one word (Swales.J.M. & Feak, 2012). Compared to not much, “little” also has a sense of profession. In my discipline, accounting scholars are required to use professional words in their writing. In brief, using this word could make accounting article become more concise, clear, and

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