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Author-Constructs & Trojan horse-ing: Academic citation as a strategic discursive practice
✍ Scribed by Michael R. Olsson
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 371 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
This paper draws on the findings of a study of 15 international information researchers' relationship with an author work prominent in the literature of their field (Brenda Dervin) to examine academic citation practices in a new light. Drawing on social constructivist theories, derived in part from Foucault's approach to discourse analysis, and a methodology drawing on aspects of Dervin's (1999) Sense-Making and Glaser & Strauss' (1967) inductive analytic techniques, it seeks to examine citation as a strategic discursive practice.