Beyond the Horizon (The Linguist Winter 2023)

Translators of popular science are, in a sense, translating a translation. Scientists speak a dialect of their own, with both terminology specific to their field of inquiry and a broader idiom shared by the community as a whole. Science communicators approach their subject matter with many of the same basic problems as translators: How canContinue reading “Beyond the Horizon (The Linguist Winter 2023)”