Journalists, scientists and discourse analysts agree that there is a transformation from the specialized language of scientific discourse to non-specialized language during the process of disseminating science to the lay public. They consider this transformation to consist of recoding, reformulation, formulation of a new type of discourse or, in the specific case of scientific journalism, journalistic transformation of scientific discourse into text. With support from the French line of discourse analysis, the present study makes a comparative analysis using two examples of journalistic discourse involving public health questions, taken from the news section of the journal ComCiência, in relation to the respective scientific discourse that served as the source for composing the news.
Health; Scientific discourse; Scientific journalism; Communication and dissemination of science