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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Can authority be sustained while balancing accessibility and formality? |
Author: | Hashimzade, N. Myles, G. Myles, G. |
Citation: | Hermes (Denmark), 2017; 27(52):11-24 |
Publisher: | School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 0904-1699 1903-1785 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Nigar Hashimzade, Georgina A. Myles and Gareth D. Myles |
Abstract: | Economics has developed into a quantitative discipline that makes extensive use of mathematical and statistical concepts. When writing a dictionary for economics undergraduates it has to be recognised that many users will not have suffi cient training in mathematics to benefi t from formal defi nitions of mathematical and statistical concepts. In fact, it is more than likely that the user will want the dictionary to provide an accessible version of a defi nition that avoids mathematical notation. Providing a verbal description of a mathematical concept has the risk that the outcome is both verbose (compared to a defi nition using appropriate mathematical symbols) and imprecise. For the author of a dictionary this raises the question of how to resolve this confl ict between accessibility and formal correctness. We use a range of examples from the Oxford Dictionary of Economics to illustrate this confl ict and to assess the extent to which a non-formal defi nition can be viewed as authoritative. |
Rights: | This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. |
DOI: | 10.7146/hjlcb.v27i52.25132 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v27i52.25132 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Economics publications |
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