29.3387, Books: Presented Discourse in Popular Science: Pilkington

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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:59:23
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Presented Discourse in Popular Science: Pilkington

 


Title: Presented Discourse in Popular Science 
Subtitle: Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences 
Series Title: Studies in Pragmatics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/37932?rskey=jxBxxL&result=1 


Author: Olga A. Pilkington

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004365971 Pages: 179 Price: Europe EURO 80
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004365964 Pages: 179 Price: Europe EURO 88


Abstract:

In "Presented Discourse in Popular Science", Olga A. Pilkington explores the
forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for
non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering
presentation of discourse outside of literary fiction: popular science uses
presented discourse in ways uncommon for fiction yet not conventional for
non-fiction either. 
This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of
popularization. Discourse presentation of scientists reconstructs the world of
the scientific community as a human space but also projects back into it an
image of the scientist the public wants to see. At the same time, Pilkington’s
findings strengthen the view of popularization that rejects the notion of a
strict divide between professional and popular science.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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