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Presented Discourse in Popular Science: Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences (Studies in Pragmatics, 17) - Hardcover

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Pilkington, Olga

 
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Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Olga A. Pilkington, Ph.D. (2016), University of Birmingham (UK), is Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University (USA). She is co-editor of Lab Lit: Exploring Literary Fictions about Science.

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