ABSTRACT
This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives.
The volume seeks to draw connections between different disciplines’ traditionally disparate studies of knowledge communication, defined here as the communication of domain knowledge between experts of the same discipline, experts of different disciplines, or non-experts with an interest in developing expert knowledge. Featuring work from scholars across linguistics, corporate communication, and sociology on diverse professional environments, chapters focus on one of three central aspects in the communication of expert knowledge: the textual carrier of the interaction, the roles and relationships between parties in these interactions, and the contexts in which the texts and communication occur. Taken together, the collection elucidates the value of an approach that supposes that expertise is co-created in interaction under the conditions of human cognitive systems and that knowledge asymmetries can offer both challenges and opportunities to better understand and generate new forms of communication and specialized knowledge.
This book will be of interest to scholars interested in language and communication, professional communication, organizational communication, and sociology of knowledge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Text
chapter 2|20 pages
Knowledge communication as an imitation game
chapter 3|20 pages
The dynamics of knowledge and expertise in social media interactions
part II|54 pages
Communication and organisations
part III|61 pages
Field-specific knowledge communication
chapter 7|19 pages
Knowledge communication during the pandemic
part IV|57 pages
Knowledge communication across fields