within academia, one of the shared "protocols of discourse" is an "axiomatic preference for complexity"
"'Actually, I believe it's more complicated than that' is, within the academic world, an unanswerable shibboleth" (also "a professional mode for producing more discourse and for giving it an archivally cumulative character")
"The same gesture falls hopelessly flat in journalistic settings, where the extensive uptake of audience attention is at a premium"
"Writers in this world are inevitably involved in a different language game from journalism"