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revoicing

8.5

Changing a sentence from active to passive to make a different part more important

noun
/rɪˈvɔɪsɪŋ/

Specialized

: cambio de voz

In grammar classes, students learn about revoicing to understand how to switch between active and passive forms.

Examples

Changing the grammatical voice of a sentence through revoicing can clarify who is performing the action.
Revoicing can completely alter the focus of a sentence by shifting the grammatical perspective.
The process of revoicing depends on the recovery and reintegration of the bodily instruments of the father that had become absent because they had died, and it is the memory of that death that brings the song back, just as the circumstances of suffering and death had brought the songs of collective memory into the father's consciousness.

Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

recasting

vsrevoicing

1 5.6

Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly

is specifically about changing grammatical voice between active and passive

Surface Forms

revoicing singular

revoicings plural

Morphology

revoicing = revoice (semi-transparent) = re + voice + ing

The step from 'revoice' to 'revoicing' is a regular -ing nominalization naming the process.

Etymology

Revoicing comes from re- 'again' and voice as in the 'voice' of a sentence (like 'active voice'), so imagine changing a sentence's voice from active to passive or the other way. That's why revoicing means changing the grammatical voice of a clause or sentence.