TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilkington,Olga
TI  - Presented Discourse in Popular Science: Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences
T2  - Studies in Pragmatics Series
SN  - 9789004365971
AV  - Q223 .P555 2018 
U1  - 501.4 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Science-Language
KW  - Science-Popular works
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Tables -- ‎List of Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: Popular Science, Overview of the Genre -- ‎Why Popular Science is Important and How it Shapes the Reader's Perception of the Scientific Community -- ‎History of Popular Science -- ‎Language: Professional and Popular -- ‎Authors and Readers -- ‎A Genre with an Agenda -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives -- ‎Presented Discourse: An Overview of Analytical Approaches -- ‎Leech and Short's (1981) Model -- ‎Semino and Short's (2004) Model -- ‎Short's (2007, 2012) Commentary on the Semino and Short (2004) and Leech and Short (1981) Models -- ‎Fictionality: Questions about Definition -- ‎The Importance of Emotionality in Popular Science -- ‎Dramatization, Emotionality and Professional Science -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. Analytical Background, Framework, Texts, and Methods -- ‎Introduction -- ‎General Role of Discourse Presentation in Fiction and Non-fiction -- ‎The Framework for Presented Discourse Analysis of the Popular Science Corpus -- ‎Corpus Selection and Methodology -- ‎Why Study Popular Science Narratives? -- ‎Description of the Popular Science Corpus -- ‎Comparison of Frequency Information for the Popular Science Corpus with the Semino and Short Findings -- ‎Presentation of Communicated Discourse in the Narratives of Discovery and Speech/Writing Presentation in Semino and Short (2004) -- ‎Presentation of Thought in the Narratives of Discovery and in Semino and Short (2004) -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 4. Dramatization in the Narratives of Discovery: The Roles of Communicated Discourse and Thought Presentation -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Dramatization in Presented Discourse: It is Not Just (F)DS -- ‎Dramatization through NPSA and NPTA -- ‎Dialogic NPSA; ‎Strings of NPSA and Interaction of Discourse Presentation Types -- ‎Borderline Dialogic NPSA -- ‎Dramatization through (F)DS: Emotionality -- ‎Dramatization through (F)DS: Personal Perspective -- ‎Dramatization through IS and FIS: Emotionality and Dialogue -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Beyond Dramatization -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Hypotheses and Discoveries: Presentation of Thought is Not so Private -- ‎Scientific Hypotheses: NPTA and IT -- ‎Introduction of Discoveries: IT -- ‎Non-dramatizing Communicated Discourse: Explanation of Science -- ‎Indirect Speech -- ‎Narrator's Presentation of Speech Acts -- ‎(Free)Direct Speech -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Presented Discourse outside the Narratives of Discovery -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Celebratory Discourse -- ‎"A Neutrino Walks into a Bar": Humor in Presented Discourse -- ‎"All Healthy Bodies Resemble Each Other, While Each Unhealthy Body is Unhealthy in Its Own Way": Literary References in Presented Discourse -- ‎Speech Presentation versus Writing Presentation: Another Look -- ‎Confirming the Fusion of Non-fiction and Fiction-Like Qualities of Presented Discourse in Popular Science -- ‎The Fictionalized Reader in Popular Science -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 7. Conclusion -- ‎The Role of Presented Discourse in the Formation of Positive Bias -- ‎Appendix. Practical Applications of Research Findings -- ‎Popular Science as a Literary Genre -- ‎The Role of Presented Discourse in Science Communication to the Public -- ‎Creating Engaging Characters -- ‎Direct Speech vs. Narrator's Presentation of Speech Acts: Construction of Dialogue -- ‎Direct and Indirect Thought: Introducing Positive and Negative Hypotheses -- ‎Indirect Speech: Showing the Creative Side of Scientists -- ‎Using Narratives -- ‎Explaining Science through Stories -- ‎Narrative Structure: Labov's Model in the New Century; ‎Pattern Recycling and Pattern Preview: Hoey's Model as a Detector of Positive Bias -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Primary Texts -- ‎General Bibliography -- ‎Index of Subjects and Names
N2  - 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 analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization
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