“Making people happen”: materiality and movement in meaning-making trajectories

Lo que escriben los científicos locales. El texto como acción social

“…Ello implica no solo considerar las intenciones de los autores, sino también la posición e interpretación de los lectores, y de forma más amplia el diálogo comunicativo en el que los textos se insertan (Morris, 1994). Además, según han sugerido otros, se trata también de poner atención a cómo, a través de los textos, los autores asumen ciertas identidades desde el ámbito social en el que escriben (Blommaert, 2008;Kell, 2015;Scollon y Scollon, 2003). Sostenemos que esta perspectiva sobre el género textual nos permitirá ampliar nuestra visión sobre la escritura producida por científicos locales y superar la visión que plantea su evaluación en función de su cercanía con el estándar de escritura académica (Dickinson y Bonney, 2012;Oberhauser y Prysby, 2008).…”

Reproduced, reinterpreted, lost: Trajectories of scientific knowledge across contexts

“…This gap in the literature seems rather unexpected given the increased attention that communication between scientists and the public has received recently (e. g. Cook et al 2004;Burningham et al 2012;Gimenez et al 2017). Our research thus aims at contributing to our understanding of the processes of language transformation and meaning mobilization involved in the re-contextualization of new scientific knowledge when it travels across contexts (Rymes 2012;Kell 2013Kell , 2015. Our study also adds to the existing literature by using new analytical tools which help issues of power, authority and access implicated in such processes surface more clearly.…”

“…When texts are re-contextualized, that is, placed in a different context, they are often transformed, acquiring new and sometimes different positioning, roles and functions (Blommaert 2005). These transformations, which result from altering a text so that it meets the real or perceived expectations of different audiences, have received increased research attention recently due to critical considerations of the roles of interconnected contexts in communication (e. g. Blommaert 2005;Budach et al 2015;Kell 2015;Woydack and Rampton 2016). Studies in academic publishing (e. g. Lillis and Curry 2010), education (e. g. Gourlay et al 2015), social work (e. g. Hall et al 1999;Lillis 2017), science (e. g. Myers 2003;Luzón 2013), and witness accounts to the police (e. g. Rock 2017) have highlighted the importance of investigating such transformations in order to gain a better understanding of the processes involved in the re-contextualization of texts.…”

“…Together with this call, there has been a growing interest in meaning-making processes in written texts as they travel across contexts (Kell 2015, Kell 2017) in an attempt to gain a better understanding of what is involved in such processes.…”

“…The literature on the analysis of such instances has created a number of related theoretical constructs to describe re-contextualization processes. For instance, Hanks (1989) used "centering", "decentering", and "recentering" to refer to the processes of contextualizing a text, de-contextualizing and re-contextualizing it respectively; Blommaert (2005) has referred to "re-entextualization" to describe how texts are de-contextualized, refocused and reorganized, following a number of transformations, and Kell (2015) has termed the study of these processes "trans-contextual analysis". Despite the differences in terminology, these works claim that through the processes of re-contextualization not only is the language of texts reconfigured but also, and probably more importantly, new meanings and associations are created as they travel across space and time.…”