Specialists over generalists?: Examining discursive closures and openings in expert collaborations

IF 3.1 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Monographs Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI:10.1080/03637751.2021.1950917

Dajung Woo, Casey S. Pierce, J. Treem

引用次数: 7

Abstract

ABSTRACT Prior research on expert collaborations has focused on how specialists – experts with deep domain knowledge – work across disciplinary boundaries with other specialists, with much less attention paid to how generalists – experts with broader and connective knowledge – work alongside specialists. To address this gap, we examined collaborative work requiring expertise of generalists (regional planners) and specialists (civil engineers). Our interview data revealed that privileged values of specialist expertise (i.e., exclusivity, neutrality, and feasibility) could close interpretive possibilities of their collaboration and that generalists engaged in communicative expertise positioning to make their expertise work with that of specialists. We developed a grounded model of generalist-specialist collaboration theorizing how they used discursive closures and openings to accentuate gains from their different expertise.

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专家胜过通才?:研究专家合作中的话语封闭和开放

摘要先前关于专家合作的研究主要集中在专家——具有深入领域知识的专家——如何与其他专家跨学科合作，而很少关注多面手——具有更广泛和关联知识的专家如何与专家合作。为了解决这一差距，我们研究了需要多面手（区域规划者）和专家（土木工程师）专业知识的合作工作。我们的访谈数据显示，专家专业知识的特权价值观（即排他性、中立性和可行性）可以关闭他们合作的解释可能性，多面手参与沟通专业知识定位，使他们的专业知识与专家的专业知识协同工作。我们开发了一个多面手-专家合作的基础模型，理论化了他们如何使用话语闭包和开口来强调他们不同专业知识的收益。

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Communication Monographs COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Communication Monographs, published in March, June, September & December, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction. The journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives.