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DESCRIPTION:How to study the history and communication of science in the Ro
 yal Society\n\nA large scale analysis of the linguistic development of sci
 entific writing using information theory. \n\nDr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortli
 eb\, Saarland University\n\nCommunication of scientific knowledge in writt
 en form has a longstanding tradition starting with the first world’s scien
 tific journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 publ
 ished by the visionary editorship of Henry Oldenburg. While the function r
 emained essentially the same\, namely to inform the scientific community o
 f the latest discoveries\, the journal has undergone significant change ov
 er time. We focus on socio-linguistic changes driven by the overarching hy
 pothesis that the linguistic development of scientific writing is characte
 rized by mechanisms of specialization and conventionalization serving to o
 ptimize efficiency in communication. To capture this optimization process 
 in our Collaborative Research Center we developed a new approach based on 
 information-theoretic measures\, which supports studying variation in lang
 uage use on a large scale. \n\nOpen to audiences in the humanities\, histo
 ry of science\, and computational linguistics.\n\n \n\n \n
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LOCATION:Leacock 738
SUMMARY:Lecture - How to study the history and communication of science in 
 the Royal Society
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/channels/event/lecture-how-study-history-and
 -communication-science-royal-society-286799
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