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TY - JOUR
T1 - Discourse studies of scientific popularisation: questioning the boundaries.
AU - Myers, Greg
N1 - 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
PY - 2003/5
Y1 - 2003/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - popularization
KW - scientific discourse
U2 - 10.1177/1461445603005002006
DO - 10.1177/1461445603005002006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 265
EP - 279
JO - Discourse Studies
JF - Discourse Studies
SN - 1461-4456
IS - 2
ER -