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Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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This chapter examines the deliberate efforts of mutual linguistic socialisation carried out by paleoclimatologists and paleo-modellers through which they seek to improve communication between both communities. These efforts include the creation of summer schools and graduate programmes where students learn from experts from both fields, the joint supervision of PhD students by paleoclimatologists and paleo-modellers, informal conversations at conferences and in collaborative projects, and university departments with academics from both research areas. I argue that most of these initiatives do not result in individuals acquiring a high level of linguistic competence in the domain that is not their own, namely interactional expertise (IE). Yet these efforts can help to bridge communicative gaps between paleoclimatologists and paleo-modellers.

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Duarte, T.R. (2017). Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration. In: Reyes-Galindo, L., Ribeiro Duarte, T. (eds) Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58365-5_3

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