Interpretive Journeys: How Physicists Talk and Travel through Graphic Space

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A major facet of the work of scientific laboratories is making sense out of ongoing experimental activity and fashioning trajectories for future experiments, presentations, publications, and proposals. As studies of science have remarked, the construction of knowledge in this context is highly dependent on a variety of semiotic tools, especially natural language and visual representation. A prevailing neo-Whorfian view is that these resources are artefacts that organize worldviews among members of diverse communities of scientific practice, often rendering members’ knowledge as observable, measurable, or otherwise credible. 1 [End Page 151]

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