Ochs1997

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Ochs1997
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Key Ochs1997
Author(s) Elinor Ochs, Sally Jacoby
Title Down to the wire: the cultural clock of physicists and the discourse of consensus
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Tag(s) EMCA, Consensus, Academic Talk, Rhetoric, temporal organization
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Year 1997
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 26
Number 4
Pages 479–505
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404500021023
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Abstract

This study examines how deadlines and time limits for conference talks organize the discourse of consensus among collaborating experimental and theoretical physicists in a university laboratory Six months of videotaped observations, including two cycles of conference talk preparation, indicate that, as the date of an upcoming conference nears, several things happen (a)Co-authoring physicists usually have not achieved agreement on all aspects of the findings (b)They nevertheless direct their energies to constructing a hybrid presentation rhetoric that satisfies the co-authors and fits the talk to the official conference talk time limit (c) In the process of working through matters of rhetoric – what to say, what to display visually, what to leave out, and in what order the information should be presented – the physicists construct a working consensus on matters of physics theory and experimental data explaining the properties and dynamics of the physical universe (Scientific discourse, consensus, temporal organization, rhetoric )

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