Myers, Greg (2003) Discourse studies of scientific popularisation: questioning the boundaries. Discourse Studies, 5 (2). pp. 265-279. ISSN 1461-4456
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445603005002006
Abstract
This article critiques the `dominant view' of the popularization of science that takes it as a one-way process of simplification, one in which scientific articles are the originals of knowledge that is then debased by translation for a public that is ignorant of such matters, a blank slate. Recent work is surveyed in several disciplines that questions the boundaries of scientific discourse and genres of popularization: who the actors are, how the discourses interact, what modes are involved, and what is communicated. Implications are drawn from these studies for discourse analysis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse Studies |
| Additional Information: | This is a pdf of the author's final version. The definitive version is on the publisher's web-site at http://dis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/265 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | popularization ; scientific discourse |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 1387 |
| Deposited By: | Prof Greg Myers |
| Deposited On: | 08 Feb 2008 09:22 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:11 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/1387 |
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