title: Facilitating listeners’ understanding of scientific knowledge in TED Talks: A corpus-based analysis of code glosses as metadiscourse resources of popularization
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metadata.value: Boginskaya, Olga A.
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metadata.value: 2024-05-31T15:18:33Z
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metadata.value: 2024-05-31T15:18:33Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Boginskaya O. A. (2024). Facilitating listeners’ understanding of scientific knowledge in TED Talks: A corpus-based analysis of code glosses as metadiscourse resources of popularization. Media Linguistics, 11 (1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2024.102
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2024.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45484
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metadata.value: A considerable amount of research has established that media discourse is an interactive event
  whose success and efficiency depend on speaker-listener relationship. Yet the nature of this
  interaction has been explored in a great number of studies, few works deal with how TED
  speakers address the needs of their listeners and manage the interaction with them. TED is
  considered to be one of the new ways of spreading scientific information online. Due to being
  an emerging genre, TED Talks have barely been analyzed in terms of popularization tools
  used to facilitate listeners’ comprehension of materials presented by TED speakers. Drawing
  on a corpus of 80 transcripts of TED Talks derived from the ted.com website, this study
  explores how TED speakers elaborate their ideas to address listeners’ needs. The aim of this
  research is to explore the types of code glosses, their lexical realizations, pragmatic functions
  and frequencies of occurrence. In order to explore the types and frequency of code glosses
  employed in TED lectures, the present study applied the quantitative method. With the aim
  of identifying the pragmatic functions the code glosses serve in TED Talks, the study applied
  the interpretative method. The analysis of the corpus revealed that code glosses are a crucial
  element of expert-lay interactions serving the popularization function. Two types of code
  glossing were employed by TED speakers with the predominance of exemplifiers intended to
  facilitate listeners’ comprehension and make speaker’s ideas accessible through illustration or
  scenario-based elaboration. All code glosses found in the corpus serve the popularization purpose
  which indicates that TED speakers made attempts to recontextualize scientific content
  and make specialized concepts comprehensible for a lay listener.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: code glosses
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: TED Talks
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metadata.value: popularization discourse
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metadata.value: scientific knowledge
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metadata.value: expert-lay interaction
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Facilitating listeners’ understanding of scientific knowledge in TED Talks: A corpus-based analysis of code glosses as metadiscourse resources of popularization
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metadata.value: Article
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