Popular knowledge: Producing a socialist popular science in the Weimar Republic
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 117-153
ISSN: 1477-4569
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In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 117-153
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: History Workshop, Heft 41, S. 117-153
In: The Athene series
In: Vestnik Čeljabinskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta: naučnyj žurnal = Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University : academic periodical, Band 476, Heft 6, S. 52-58
The article considers authors' prefaces in linguistic popular science texts. Authors of popular science texts about the language may have different professional status in relation to the subject of speech (linguistics). Based on this criterion, three types of linguistic popular science texts authors have been identified: 1) linguists who are active in scientific work; 2) linguists-popularizers; 3) authors whose professional activities are related to language practice (translators, editors, writers, etc.). It has been established that the factor of the addresser (professional status of the author) largely determines the stylistic and communicative-pragmatic specificity of the authors' prefaces.
In: History of science and technology volume 1
In: Diskurs, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 106-120
ISSN: 2658-7777
Introduction. The present paper aims at revealing and describing the linguistic means of creating the inventor's image in the English language science popular discourse. The study also describes the use of image creation strategy and solidarity strategy. The relevance of the research is defined, firstly, by unconditional and ever-increasing public interest in scientific knowledge in the era of technological progress. Secondly, regarding the obvious importance of the human factor in the presentation of an invention from the creator's point of view makes it possible for the mass reader to interpret the science news in various ways and see the modern inventor's most typical features. Thus, analyzing the specific representation of the invention in popular science media texts the authors offer their own original conception of a modern innovator, which defines the novelty of the study. Special attention is focused on credibility and competitive nature of science popular discourse which are its integrative features.Methodology and sources. The research is based on the English language sciencepopular media texts – Popular Mechanics, Mit News Education, Science Daily, Interesting Engineering, SciTechDaily. For the selection of technically-focused media texts the continuously sampling method was used. The general methodology of studying image creation strategy and solidarity strategy also includes the method of semantic analysis, the method of semantic-stylistic analysis, elements of communicative-pragmatic analysis and the method of contextual analysis.Results and discussion. Image creation strategy and solidarity strategy are implemented in science popular discourse mainly on lexical and syntactic levels and imply the use of stylistic devices. Each of the strategies mentioned above matches a certain type of science popularized texts about inventions and discoveries. The first type is about the selfpresentation of the innovator, and has its own linguistic features. The second type includes the description of an invention from the position of scientific community. The significant result of the study is the conclusion about the diverse nature of the inventor's media image.Conclusion. The study of the linguistic specific of the inventor's image allows a deeper understanding of the anthropocentric nature of an invention itself. The last one is inseparable from its creator being the result of scientific activity and professional ambitions, as well as the personal growth condition. The chosen methodology can be applied for further research and to similar studies of the creator and his creation based on texts of different profile.
Over the centuries, the circulation of scientific ideas has been granted in one or a limited number of languages. Despite the advantages of avoiding a scientific Babel, popular science is largely communicated to the public using their first language(s), and is often the result of translation from other languages – most notably English. While science may partly be communicated to the public for information, at the leading edge of research it is often popularised for its newsworthiness and/or to involve the public in debates concerning social issues or political decisions. The question addressed in this paper is how the 'news' elements in popular science are mediated in the target language and culture and to what extent processes such as rewriting, transediting and transcreation are at work. Methods and strategies for science communication are compared and contrasted using an Italian and English parallel/comparable corpus of newspaper, magazine and news agency articles reporting on the recent scientific controversy over vaccines. Corpus articles are collected using the LexisNexis database. Data are checked against a small monitor corpus of key articles collected as the controversies developed. Within corpus texts, mediating strategies are tested and issues concerning the achievement of intended effects in scientific controversy popularizations are considered. The discourse of controversies will be investigated in translation as a test case for rewriting, transediting or transcreation with an eye to different audiences, while bearing in mind that the ease of communication and circulation of ideas may have blurred cultural specificities and impacted the presentation of scientific topics to some extent.
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Over the centuries, the circulation of scientific ideas has been granted in one or a limited number of languages. Despite the advantages of avoiding a scientific Babel, popular science is largely communicated to the public using their first language(s), and is often the result of translation from other languages – most notably English. While science may partly be communicated to the public for information, at the leading edge of research it is often popularised for its newsworthiness and/or to involve the public in debates concerning social issues or political decisions. The question addressed in this paper is how the 'news' elements in popular science are mediated in the target language and culture and to what extent processes such as rewriting, transediting and transcreation are at work. Methods and strategies for science communication are compared and contrasted using an Italian and English parallel/comparable corpus of newspaper, magazine and news agency articles reporting on the recent scientific controversy over vaccines. Corpus articles are collected using the LexisNexis database. Data are checked against a small monitor corpus of key articles collected as the controversies developed. Within corpus texts, mediating strategies are tested and issues concerning the achievement of intended effects in scientific controversy popularizations are considered. The discourse of controversies will be investigated in translation as a test case for rewriting, transediting or transcreation with an eye to different audiences, while bearing in mind that the ease of communication and circulation of ideas may have blurred cultural specificities and impacted the presentation of scientific topics to some extent.
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In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 291-294
ISSN: 1745-8560
In: Visnyk Charkivsʹkoi͏̈ deržavnoi͏̈ akademii͏̈ kulʹtury: zbirnyk naukovych prac' = Visnyk of Kharkiv State Academy of Culture : scientific journal, Band 0, Heft 53
ISSN: 2522-1132
In: History of science and technology volume 1
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introductory Articles -- The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice -- From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment -- On the Trail ofPopular Science in Antiquity -- Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School -- The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media -- Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle -- Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides -- Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic -- Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire -- The Celestial Axis in Manilius' Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible -- Between Pre-Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment -- Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-ModernEncyclopaedism -- Was Cometen eygentlich seyen. Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature -- More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance -- Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales -- Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media -- Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century -- Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons -- Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s -- Wassily Kandinsky's Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics -- Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts.
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 197
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Gender & history, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 595-610
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Journal of social history, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1527-1897