Médiation et mise en scène de Vinformation dans le discours de vulgarization scientifique
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2000
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The mamer of presentation of information in the texts popularising science
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The present study examines texts about computer viruses from French, Spanish and German popular
scientific journals. The first part of the paper shows how these texts make systematic use of concepts and
expressions drawn from other domains of discourse. The second part of the paper focusses on a subgroup
of the linguistic means employed, i.e. metaphorical expressions, and discusses their functions in the texts
under discussion. These functions can be assigned to two groups, in that they either mediate new information
or make the message more effective on the rhetorical level. The paper concludes with a discussion
of some writer strategies used for activating other semantic domains as a prerequisite for achieving a
particular rhetorical effect.
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2000, vol. 25/26, pp. 269-281
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83-232-1270-8