PASSIVE SENTENCE PERCEPTION OF SOCIETY

The Societies which are under the effect of different cultures and becoming alienated to their identities start to degenerate culturally as well. Cultural degeneration brings language deformation along in time. Considering that different society’s cultural values penetrate gradually into Turkish society and the degeneration happens gradually, it is observed that a proper awareness could not be created. Usage of passive sentences is a kind of usage which is a result of the degeneration. Topic of our study consists of the negative influence of the passive sentences which are used more widely after the degeneration of the culture, on the society. As a result of the proliferation of the usage of passive sentences, it could be seen that the society became more prone to degenerate culturally. The research is descriptive in natüre. The data was collected via questionnaire by using survey method. Data of the study consist of the results of a survey conducted to 273 people with different age and educational level. While 3 of the survey questions are demographic, 14 question is about the usage of passive sentences. The answers given to the different questions which are prepared focusing on the issue whether passive sentences passivize the society or not are tabulated and interpreted. As a result of our study it can be said that usage of passive sentences is not appropriate for active structure of nomadic Turkish society. Usage of the passive voice, which causes subject to be pushed into the background and passiveness, in Turkish language, in which being active and bringing man into the forefront is peculiar, passivizes the people in time. This study in which an element related to language is being evaluated with respect to social structure is important in terms of language-society relation.

Keywords

Social structure, Usage of passive voice, Negative influences of passive voice, Active-passive man