THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN THE STUDY OF SPECIALIZED DISCOURSES

Evgueniya Lyu, Caroline Peynaud, Nadežda Stojković

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In sociology, society is defined as a “human group that occupies a reasonably bounded territory and has a reasonably distinctive culture and set of social institutions” (Bruce and Yearley 2006: 286). This definition closely resembles the one that Becher put forward to describe disciplinary groups - “academic tribes, each with their own set of intellectual values and their own patch of cognitive territory” (1994: 153). Drawing on these socio-anthropological perspectives, we can define a specialized community, whether disciplinary or professional, as a type of society that represents a group of people occupying a particular field, sharing a distinct disciplinary or professional culture, and having its own institutions.


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