Language constraints in producing prefiguration posters for a scientific exhibition

Bibliographic Data

ID22948007
AuthorsLaurence Simonneaux (Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique, BP 87, F31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France), Daniel Jacobi (Centre de Recherche sur la Culture et les Musées, Faculté des Sciences Humaines, Université de Bourgogne, 36 rue Chabot-Charny, F21000 Dijon, France)
Year1997
Volume6
Issue4
Pages383-408
Publication date1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Understanding of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0963-6625 • E-ISSN: 1361-6609
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1088/0963-6625/6/4/005
OpenAlexW1947203514
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited13

The museographic transposition of scientific knowledge leads notably to the preparation of exhibition posters. This is a delicate operation, on account of the constraints imposed by space, language, concepts and the text. These difficulties are even greater in the case of bovine reproduction biotechnologies, such as cloning, where knowledge is not yet stable. This paper deals with the choices made during the phase of museographic transposition. First of all, based on an epistemological approach, a historical analysis of knowledge-building underpins the choice of information to be presented. Language is then selected according to the linguistic analysis of a series of articles which popularize science. Finally, the posters are assessed by samples of potential visitors.

Art · Biology · Cloning (programming) · Exhibition · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Space (punctuation) · Transposition (logic) · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Genetics · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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