Translating passives in English and Swedish: a text linguistic perspective

The aim of this work-in-progress report is to study whether the textual and grammatical structure of passive clauses is retained or altered in translations between English and Swedish. The passive is interesting to study in this perspective since it is a multifunctional category closely linked to textual structure. It constitutes a useful text-structuring tool in that it makes it possible to ‘thematize a Give