Popular science : Science Popularization
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 212-216
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 212-216
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta: naučnyj recenziruemyj žurnal = MGIMO review of international relations : scientific peer-reviewed journal, Heft 3(42), S. 290-292
ISSN: 2541-9099
In: History Workshop, Heft 41, S. 117-153
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 117-153
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: East/West: journal of Ukrainian Studies, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 139-171
ISSN: 2292-7956
This paper historicizes the idea of "popular science" in the Ukrainian academic discourse in relation to contemporary approaches to "national science" (as "science proper") and places special emphasis on the introduction of regular scientific lectures to public audiences in early twentieth century Habsburg Galicia. The Shevchenko Scientific Society was the central Ukrainian association of scholars and scientists at the time. Male-dominated, and increasingly dedicated to "Ukrainoznavstvo" ("Ukrainian studies"), the Shevchenko Scientific Society paid little attention to the popularization of scientific research. The Petro Mohyla Society for Ukrainian Scientific Lectures emerged in reaction to the Shevchenko Society. Its goal was to expand public awareness of the scientific work, and its members proceeded to organize regular public lectures all over Galicia between 1909 and 1914. This paper analyzes such popularization of science, propagated by the Petro Mohyla Society, and examines the lecture audiences with regard to their location, gender, and respective interests.
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: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 197
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 151-182
ISSN: 0049-7878
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 151-182
ISSN: 1547-7045
In: Journalism & mass communication quarterly: JMCQ, Band 90, Heft 4, S. 776-790
ISSN: 2161-430X
By analyzing the contests that appeared in Popular Science Monthly from 1918 to 1938, this article discusses the rhetoric of public engagement with technological innovation, and the magazine's construction of a readership community. A close analysis of these contests reveals a burgeoning participatory culture within the context of the popularization of science and technology in the mass-circulation press of early twentieth-century America. Significantly, the contests frame their public as an active participant in the development of science and technology, in sharp contrast to the passive, diffusionist model of science popularization that dominated the interwar period in the United States.
In: RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, Heft 10, S. 69-76
The article is devoted to identifying the using features of the sciencetainment method in Russian popular science TV programs. Currently, the method is actively used on television to attract the attention of viewers and implement several functions of journalism at once – the enlightenment and recreational ones. The study presents the characteristics of sciencetainment as a method of television journalism, describes causes for such a content to be in demand, identifies signs of the presence of sciencetainment in popular science TV projects, defines the advantages and disadvantages of using that method.
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 356-359
ISSN: 1527-8050
In: Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 397-401
ISSN: 2541-898X
The paper aims at identifying the connection between the target domain and the source domain (represented by the PARTS OF MECHANISM, MECHANISM REPAIR, MECHANISM ACTIVATION). The author uses continuous sampling method, as well as methods of conceptual and component analysis, in order to elicit multiple target domains and the mapping principle. The sentences under research (512 metaphorical expressions) were taken from various British and American popular science journals on Biology. The author considers the key works written in the field of conceptual metaphor (G. Lakoff, E. Maccormac), linguistic picture of the world (D. Berdnikova, S. Dracheva), written by the Russian linguists. The theoretical analysis is finished by a review of the works in the sphere of the popular science and scientific discourses and the place of metaphor in them (O. Desyukevich, S. Chistyukhina, E. Mazyar, E. Mityukova). In the course of the material description the author has drawn some conclusions about the way the English conceptualize biological processes. It is important to note that most frequently the metaphorical meaning is a broader, more general one, whereas in other cases, it alternatively makes the object or a process more specific, or it can have a completely opposite meaning. Molecule, cell, bacteria, fungi and viruses serve as target domains, which can be explained by the immense significance of the processes that lay the "foundation" of human life. A very extensive metaphorical thesaurus of the mechanism conceptual domain is indicative of this conceptual domain being well-structured. It is worthy of note that the lexemes with the denotational meaning of stopping are barely present in the research which means that the described genes, molecules and cells are doing a never-ceasing job of maintaining life on earth.
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 63, S. 165-167
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, Heft 7, S. 92-106
Scientific illustration as an independent genre represents the specifics of the concept of "scientific" that has developed over three centuries of the development of the scientific method of European classical natural science. The basic characteristics of the scientific method and its private tools (including illustrations) are impartial, non-judgmental, non-subjective, emotionless modeling of the objects being studied and depicted. Illustrated popular science publications for children, as a tool of non-formal education with a supposed dual addressing, find themselves on the boundary line between scientific and educational illustrations. The complexity of the format is that it must be scientific, children educational, entertaining and popular at the same time. In handdrawn illustrations for such books, two very different ways of presenting the material can be distinguished. The article discusses the status of illustrations in terms of the possibility of classifying them as scientific in a children's guidebook, made in a sketchy manner.