Introduction: Linguistic and discourse issues in contemporary scientific communication. Aspects of communicating science to a variety of audiences

Banks, David; Martino, Emilia Di

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.011

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“…They include the academic style of speech, relevance and authoritativeness. While the scientific style categories (accuracy, abstractiveness, logic, objectivity) have been described in detail (see the papers by Ponomareva, 2004;Rakitina, 2006;Cherniavskaia, 2005;Banks and Di Martino, 2019), a few words should be said about authoritativeness as a communicative category of scientific discourse, since it directly correlates with the category of categoricalness.…”

Section: Features Of Scientific Discoursementioning

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Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse

Panchenko

Volkova

2021

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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The article views categoricalness as a communicative category functioning in the scientific discourse and adversely affecting the process of scientific communication. The results of the discourse and contextual analysis of categoricalness revealed its correlation with the communicative categories of politeness, authoritativeness, confidence, subjectivity, and emotionality. The analysis of the texts of scientific reviews, oral discussions, and disputes allowed the authors to conclude that Russian scientific communication is characterized by a high level of categoricalness, which suggests potential conflictogenity in such type of interaction. The article discusses ways of neutralizing categoricalness through the use of several mitigation tools, including lexico-stylistic and syntactical ones, intended to eliminate the destructive component from scientific communication

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Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse

Panchenko

Volkova

2021

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities &Amp; Social Sciences

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“…Society uses hi-tech devices that make life easier, as well as professional knowledge that also helps to solve certain kinds of problems. Scientists face the necessity to communicate their results to a broader audience outside academic areas [1]. The problem is that theoretical achievements of science are usually presented in a scientific language that is understandable only for professional scientists, but their findings should be put in a more simplified form for lay people who need them and/or might be interested in the scientific knowledge.…”

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Innovations in science popularization (in on-line legal texts)

Pervukhina

Demchenko

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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The article aims at analysis of popularization tactics as means of science popularization. The authors see these tactics as an innovative means of popularization of science and education development in the professional sphere. These tactics help specialists explain certain terms and concepts of a professional domain. As a research material, the authors chose on-line legal texts that are in demand for wide readership. The following tactics have been revealed: choosing sub-technical terms or spoke equivalents, using plain grammar structures and short understandable sentences, explication of professional presuppositions, quoting and referencing to the legal acts, using non-verbal elements. The authors used the National Corpus of the Russian Language for the comparison of the usage of professional terms and their spoken equivalents. The findings of the research can be used for linguistic and pragmatic simplification of legal texts (on-line and off-line), and professional texts of other professional domains. The findings of this research are essential for preparation of educational materials for higher professional institutions.

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Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests

Lorés

2024

Journal of Pragmatics

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Introduction: Linguistic and discourse issues in contemporary scientific communication. Aspects of communicating science to a variety of audiences

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse

Categoricalness in Scientific Discourse

Innovations in science popularization (in on-line legal texts)

Mediating expert knowledge: The use of pragmatic strategies in digital research digests

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