TECHNICAL LANGUAGE AS EVIDENCE OF EXPERTISE

Technical Language as Evidence of Expertise

In this paper, I focus on one argumentative strategy with which experts (or putative experts) in a particular field provide evidence of their expertise to a Vegan Diet lay audience.The strategy consists in using technical vocabulary that the speaker knows the audience does not comprehend with the intention of getting the audience to infer that the

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Policy effects and mechanisms of ecological civilization demonstration area on carbon efficiency in resource-based cities

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the construction of ecological civilization demonstration areas (CECDA) on the carbon efficiency (CE) of resource-based cities (RCs) and to understand its mechanism.The CE indicator of 114 prefecture-level RCs in China was measured from 2004 to 2018 using the Slack Based Measure (SBM) model.

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