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    Experiments with interactional expertise
    with Harry Collins, Rodrigo Ribeiro, and Martin Hall
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4): 656-674. 2006.
    ‘Interactional expertise’ is developed through linguistic interaction without full scale practical immersion in a culture. Interactional expertise is the medium of communication in peer review in science, in review committees, and in interdisciplinary projects. It is also the medium of specialist journalists and of interpretative methods in the social sciences. We describe imitation game experiments designed to make concrete the idea of interactional expertise. The experiments show that the ling…Read more