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Publication details [#14791]

Ochs, Elinor and Sally Jacoby. 1997. Down to the wire: The cultural clock of physicists and the discourse of consensus. Language in Society 26 (4) : 479–505.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

consensus | rhetoric | scientific language

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A report on the discourse features of constructing consensus in conference talk preparation: the (incomplete) construction of agreement on research findings, the construction of a presentation rhetoric, and the construction of a working consensus on the science of physics.