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Reviewing Encyclopaedia Authority

Author(s) -

Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

culture unbound journal of current cultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256

H-Index - 7

ISSN - 2000-1525

DOI - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146547

Subject(s) - encyclopedia , order (exchange) , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , business , finance

As traditional encyclopaedias appear to be loosing the favour of the general public, the current paper investigates the extent to which encyclopaedias are still presented as authoritative texts. Here, authority in texts is mostly construed from the theory of cognitive authority according to Jozef Maria Bochenski, Richard De George, and Patrick Wilson; in particular from their reflections on the roles, measures and bases of cognitive authority. The content of 80 book reviews on science and technology encyclopaedias is analysed in order to highlight comments pertaining to encyclopaedia authority. Although many aspects of cognitive author-ities are covertly discussed within these book reviews, encyclopaedias are not explicitly presented as absolute authorities

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