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Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences

By: Olga Pilkington

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Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences

By: Olga Pilkington

In Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering presentation of discourse outside of literary fiction: popular science uses presented discourse in ways uncommon for fiction yet not conventional for non-fiction either. This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization. Discourse presentation of scientists reconstructs the world of the scientific community as a human space but also projects back into it an image of the scientist the public wants to see. At the same time, Pilkington’s findings strengthen the view of popularization that rejects the notion of a strict divide between professional and popular science.

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9004365974

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9789004365971

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

By: Olga Gurova

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Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

By: Olga Gurova

This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal lifestyles portrayed in glossy magazines and other media have contributed to the consumer revolution, as have shifts in the social structure and everyday life. Overall, the book, which includes the findings of extensive original research, including in-depth interviews with consumers, relates changes in fashion and retail to changing outlooks, identities, and ideologies in Russia more generally. The mentioned changes are also linked to the theoretical concept of fashion formed in postsocialist society.

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200

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Routledge

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1135020302

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9781135020309

The Language of Popular Science

Analyzing the Communication of Advanced Ideas to Lay Readers

By: Olga A. Pilkington

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The Language of Popular Science

Analyzing the Communication of Advanced Ideas to Lay Readers

By: Olga A. Pilkington

If you read (or write) popular science, you might sometimes wonder: how do the authors manage to make subjects that once put you to sleep in science class both so entertaining and approachable? The use of language is key. Based on analyses of popular science bestsellers, this linguistic study shows how expert popularizers use the voices and narratives of scientists to engage readers, demonstrating the power of science and portraying researchers as champions of knowledge. By doing so they often blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction, inviting readers to take part in thought experiments and turn ordinary scientists into omnipotent heroes.

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197

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McFarland

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1476672539

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9781476672533

Little Soldiers

How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945

By: Olga Kucherenko

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Little Soldiers

How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945

By: Olga Kucherenko

Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the war, these youngsters played an important part in Soviet remembrance culture, though their true experiences were obscured by the myth of the Great Patriotic War. Situated at the crossroads of social, cultural, and military history, Little Soldiers is the first to tell the story of the Soviet Union's child soldiers in a critical and systematic fashion. Focusing on the mechanisms and psychological consequences of propaganda on Soviet children, as well as their combat deployment, Kucherenko adopts a three-tier approach to writing the history of childhood: 'from above', 'from below', and 'from within'. A wide variety of new sources provide insight into young soldiers' combat motivations and the roles they played in the field, as well as their routine experiences and relationship with older comrades. Far from being victims, Soviet child soldiers emerge as independent social actors capable of making choices about their behaviour . Little Soldiers interconnects with matters of increasing importance: the role of propaganda in military conflicts, the totalization of warfare, child-soldiering, and social reflexivity.

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280

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OUP Oxford

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0191610992

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9780191610998

Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

By: Olga Shevchenko

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Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

By: Olga Shevchenko

In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics.

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258

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Indiana University Press

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0253002575

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9780253002570

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

CEPES-UNESCO International Symposium, Prague, CSFR, October 23-25, 1989, Proceedings

By: Vladimír Mařík,Olga Štěpánková

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Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

CEPES-UNESCO International Symposium, Prague, CSFR, October 23-25, 1989, Proceedings

By: Vladimír Mařík,Olga Štěpánková

This volume presents the written versions of talks delivered at the symposium "The advent of AI in Higher Education" held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 23-25, 1989. Contributions review the current impact of AI on the educational process, stressing the problems and needs of universities. Particular systems, projects and methodologies are de scribed with the aim of gathering and generalizing the experience obtained. The latest developments prove that AI offers interesting methods which could be used with success across a wider range in the domain of education. The nature and spirit of AI forms a new phenomenon which necessitates reconsidering the whole educational process. Papers in this volume describe sophisticated tutoring systems as well as suggestions for new curricula.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540529527

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9783540529521

The Language of Popular Science

Analyzing the Communication of Advanced Ideas to Lay Readers

By: Olga A. Pilkington

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Analyzing the Communication of Advanced Ideas to Lay Readers

By: Olga A. Pilkington

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McFarland

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Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences

By: Olga Pilkington

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Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences

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Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

The Language of Popular Science

The Language of Popular Science

Little Soldiers

Little Soldiers

Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

The Language of Popular Science

The Language of Popular Science

Presented Discourse in Popular Science

Presented Discourse in Popular Science

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