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Myers, Greg. 2003. Discourse studies of scientific popularization: questioning the boundaries. Discourse Studies 5 (2) : 265–279.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
1461-4456

Annotation

This critique on the 'dominant view' of the popularization of science as a one-way process of simplification, surveys recent research in several disciplines, questioning the boundaries of scientific discourse and popularization genres. Implications from these studies for discourse analysis are discussed.