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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" dtd-version="1.4" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2. Языкознание</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1998-9911</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2409-1979</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15688/jvolsu2.2023.2.13</article-id><article-categories><subj-group><subject>Other</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="ru">Стратегии популяризации как дискурсивные инструменты устранения асимметрии знания [На англ. яз.]</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Popularization Strategies in Eliminating Knowledge Asymmetry in Expert-Lay Discourse</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Богинская</surname><given-names>Ольга Александровна</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Boginskaya</surname><given-names>Olga A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-9738-8122</contrib-id></contrib><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Irkutsk National Research Technical University (Irkutsk, Russia)</institution></aff><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Иркутский национальный исследовательский технический университет (Иркутск, Россия)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2023-06-29"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>164</fpage><lpage>174</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-03-11"><day>11</day><month>03</month><year>2022</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-12-05"><day>05</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:title="CC BY 4.0"><ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p xml:lang="ru">CC BY 4.0</license-p></license></permissions><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье на материале ответов врачей на вопросы пользователей медицинских форумов исследуются стратегии популяризации, применяемые в асимметричных интеракциях с целью элиминации асимметрии знания. Практическая значимость данного исследования заключается в разработке рекомендаций, которые могут стать основой эффективного дискурсивного взаимодействия медицинских работников и пациентов и помогут устранить трудности в понимании абстрактных специализированных понятий последними. В результате анализа выделены две категории стратегий популяризации экспертного знания: 1) описание, включающее деноминацию, дефиницию, перефразирование и метафоризацию; 2) иллюстрирование, включающее экземплификацию и сценаризацию. Установлено, что в изучаемом корпусе к наиболее частотным средствам популяризации медицинских знаний относятся дефиниции, перифразы и примеры, наименее частотными – метафоры и сценарии; доля комбинированных стратегий оказалась незначительной. Сделан вывод о том, что использование экспланаторных механизмов облегчает понимание сложного медицинского контента и способствует достижению прагматического эффекта в коммуникативном про- цессе, протекающем в условиях асимметрии знания. Предложенная модель анализа асимметричных интеракций на материале медицинских онлайн-форумов, в основе которой лежит выявление стратегий популяризации и сигнализирующих их языковых средств, может быть применена при анализе других типов асимметричного дискурса.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="summary"><p>The article examines replies of healthcare professionals on ask-a-doctor forums, which have barely been treated in terms of popularization strategies employed in expert-lay interactions where a set of specialized concepts needs to be displayed in a way that enables lay users to understand them. The study was thus motivated by the lack of explicit guidance for healthcare professionals who are to interact with lay persons, and challenges faced by lay users in attempting to understand abstract specialized concepts. The study is based on the assumption that popularization strategies improve comprehensibility of medical information, prevent the emergence of communicative problems, and contribute to the dissemination of medical knowledge to a lay audience. A taxonomy of the strategies used by healthcare professionals in disseminating medical knowledge on ask-a-doctor forums is built, linguistic markers that signify these strategies in expert-lay interactions are identified. A corpus-based analysis revealed that definitions, denominations and reformulations were the most common tools employed by doctors to communicate specialized knowledge to lay-forum users. Metaphors and scenarios were infrequent in the corpus. Combined strategies were also used in doctors’ replies, but their share was insignificant. It was concluded that the use of popularization tools in disseminating medical knowledge is an effective discursive mechanism that facilitates understanding among layaddressees and produces specific reactions by resorting to familiar concepts and domains.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>стратегия популяризации</kwd><kwd>асимметрия знания</kwd><kwd>медицинский дискурс</kwd><kwd>популяризационный дискурс</kwd><kwd>дефиниция</kwd><kwd>метафоризация</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>explanatory strategy</kwd><kwd>knowledge asymmetry</kwd><kwd>medical discourse</kwd><kwd>popularization discourse</kwd><kwd>definition</kwd><kwd>metaphorization</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="en">Anesa P., 2016. The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Legal Information in Expert-Lay Online interaction. 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