Towards an Effective Use of Language to Explain Light in the Museum
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3771
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/sce.21517
- Title of journal
- Science Education
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- First page
- 923
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0036-8326
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is an interdisciplinary paper with equal contributions from the authors. Afonso's contribution to this paper relates to the application of Cognitive Linguistics, and, in particular of the Conceptual Metaphor theory, to the data (museum educators’ speech turns). Afonso carried out most of the identification, classification and analysis of the lexicon used in the explanations and the conceptual metaphors emerging from the data. The contribution of the other authors was to identify assess the scientific validity of the explanations, i.e. to what extent the verbalisation of scientific phenomena using hybrid lexicon and conceptual metaphors is congruent with the accepted scientific knowledge. The Cognitive Linguistics perspective contributed to the development of the multidimensional framework developed by social scientists over the years (Gilbert, Boulter, & Rutherford, 2000; Gilbert, Taber, & Watts, 2001; Yeo & Gilbert, 2014) to analyse explanations in science education with regard to their function (i.e. the purpose of explanation), level (i.e. quality of explanation), and form (i.e. the structure of the discourse).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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