La Recherche : authors and readers, the concept of continuity

The figure of the "Third man", who is the translator of the scientific treatise for the public, is the most useful one to explain the different steps of the popularization process. With the exemple of La Recherche, the author insists on continuity: the searchers themselves are producing the articles and the terminology of the scientific article does not differ much from the one published in La Recherche. The public consists mainly in students, teachers, and of professional classes who need a scientific training. Already provided with the basis required for receiving, appropriating and using information, the public is not too much apart from the searcher himself, for whom the publication of articles in La Recherche is a way towards a good reputation and acknowledgment.
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