Language, materiality, and emotions in science learning settings
Published: 2019
Publication Name: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science
Publication URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351207836
Abstract:
Chapter abstract:
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the ways in which emotions are construed as part of science education. Grounding my theoretical conception of emotion in sociolinguistics and social psychology, I explicate a conceptualization of emotions that is interactional, contextual, intertextual, and consequential. Drawing from my research program and other science education studies, I attend to the ways in which emotions are part of the discourse in science classrooms. I highlight the affordances and constraints of using sociolinguistics to examine emotions in science learning settings and offer recommendations for examining emotions in discourse.
Book abstract:
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science provides a state-of-the-art volume on the language of scientific processes and communications. This book offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science, as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating discussions about future directions within the field. Featuring original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars, as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research, this handbook:
- identifies common objects of inquiry across the areas of rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication studies, science and technology studies, and public understanding of science;
- covers the four key themes of power, pedagogy, public engagement, and materiality in relation to the study of scientific language and its development;
- uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to demonstrate how humanities and social science scholars can go about studying science;
- details the meaning and purpose of socio-cultural approaches to science, including the impact of new media technologies;
- analyses the history of the field and how it positions itself in relation to other areas of study.
Ushering the study of language and science toward a more interdisciplinary, diverse, communal and ecological future, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.
Hufnagel, E. (2020). Language, Materiality, and Emotions in Science Learning Settings. In D. R. Gruber & L. C. Olman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science (pp. 253–261). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351207836