Recontextualized knowledge : rhetoric - situation - science communication / edited by Olaf Kramer and Markus Gottschling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kramer, Olaf, editor.

Gottschling, Markus, editor.

Series:

Neue Rhetorik / New Rhetoric

neue rhetorik / new rhetoric ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science Communication, Rhetoric.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recontextualized Knowledge aims to analyze the communicative situations involved in the popularization of scientific knowledge: their settings, audiences, and the adaptive process of recontextualization in science communication. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this publication brings together essays from rhetoric, linguistics, and psychology as well as political and education sciences to serve as an in-depth exploration of today's communicative situations in science communication.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Recontextualized Knowledge

Part I: Science Communication and the Public Sphere

Where Perspective Taking Can and Cannot Take Us

Creating a Rhetorical Situation

Communicating Sustainability

Part II: Narratives and Stories

Memorable Stories in Science and Popular Science

Questions and Dialogue in Science Communication

Scientists on the Hero’s Journey

Part III: Education and Knowledge Transfer

Science Revisited

How Laypeople Process Health News Articles

Towards a “Culture of Explaining” in Science Teaching

An Opportunity to Induce Bottom-Up Change in Society

Index

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-067631-1

OCLC:

1226679235