Ochs1997
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Elinor Ochs, Sally Jacoby |
| Title | Down to the wire: the cultural clock of physicists and the discourse of consensus |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Consensus, Academic Talk, Rhetoric, temporal organization |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 479–505 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404500021023 |
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Abstract
This study examines how deadlines and time limits for conference talks organize the discourse of consensus among collaborating experimental and theoretical physicists in a university laboratory Six months of videotaped observations, including two cycles of conference talk preparation, indicate that, as the date of an upcoming conference nears, several things happen (a)Co-authoring physicists usually have not achieved agreement on all aspects of the findings (b)They nevertheless direct their energies to constructing a hybrid presentation rhetoric that satisfies the co-authors and fits the talk to the official conference talk time limit (c) In the process of working through matters of rhetoric – what to say, what to display visually, what to leave out, and in what order the information should be presented – the physicists construct a working consensus on matters of physics theory and experimental data explaining the properties and dynamics of the physical universe (Scientific discourse, consensus, temporal organization, rhetoric )
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