Jargon use inPublic Understanding of Sciencepapers over three decades

被引：15

作者：

Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet ^{[1
]}

Wolfson, Orli ^{[1
]}

Yosef, Roy ^{[2
]}

Chapnik, Noam ^{[3
]}

Brill, Adi ^{[4
]}

Segev, Elad ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Fac Educ Sci & Technol, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[2] Holon Inst Technol, Management Technol, Holon, Israel

[3] Holon Inst Technol, Fac Management Technol, Holon, Israel

[4] Holon Inst Technol, Fac Sci, Comp Sci, Holon, Israel

[5] Holon Inst Technol, Fac Sci, Field Computat Biol & Data Sci, Holon, Israel

来源：

PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE | 2020年 / 29卷 / 06期

关键词：

discourses of science; rhetoric of science and technology; science communication; science writing;

D O I：

10.1177/0963662520940501

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Public Understanding of Scienceis an interdisciplinary journal serving the scholarly community and practitioners. This article reports an analysis of the readability and jargon in articles published in Public Understanding of Science throughout its almost three decades of existence to examine trends in accessibility to diverse audiences. The accessibility of Public Understanding of Science articles published in 1999/2000 (47), 2009 (49) and 2019 (65) was assessed in terms of readability and use of jargon. Readability decreased and use of jargon increased between 1999 and 2000 and the two following decades for empirical and non-empirical papers, and all parts including the abstracts. An analysis of rare words shows that most are not part of the general academic vocabulary or disciplinary jargon, but rather words that appeared only in one article.Public Understanding of Sciencehas moved away from everyday language. This does not mean it is incomprehensible to its scholarly readership, but may have consequences to other audiences such as practitioners.

引用

页码：644 / 654

页数：11