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Persuasion in science communication. Empirical findings on scientific weblogs

Hanauska, Monika 1; Leßmöllmann, Annette ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Technikzukünfte (ITZ), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Science communication has gained high importance in the current knowledge and risk society. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of qualitative studies on how non-experts and experts engage in opinionated scientific debates and which linguistic devices they use to gain influence on other people’s attitudes toward a scientific issue.In our study, we examine dialogical modes of science communication (i.e. weblogs) used by bloggers and audiences to engage into opinionated discourse about scientific endeavors. As those exchanges easily lead to controversies between different points of views, stances and attitudes, we focus from a rhetorically-driven linguistic perspective on devices to persuade the other participants and readers and to control the discourse. Hence, we ask which linguistic instruments are used to gain influence on influence. The aim of our study is to get deeper insights into the persuasive strategies mainly used in those forms of external science communication.


Postprint §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000144299
Veröffentlicht am 20.12.2022
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1075/is.00008.han
Scopus
Zitationen: 2
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Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Technikzukünfte (ITZ)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1572-0373, 1572-0381
KITopen-ID: 1000144299
Erschienen in Interaction studies
Verlag John Benjamins Publishing
Band 22
Heft 3
Seiten 343-372
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