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Ritchie, David and Char Schell. 2009. “The ivory tower” on an “unstable foundation”: Playful Language, Humor, and Metaphor in the Negotiation of Scientists' Identities. Metaphor and Symbol 24 (2) : 90–104. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper demonstrates how attention to social scientists' discursive use of playful, metaphorical, and humorous language use (during a focus-group session on scientists' role in communicating on science with laypersons), enhances comprehension of talk goal achievement .