Landmark Essays On Rhetoric Of Science

Author : Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 1880393115

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science by Randy Allen Harris Pdf

Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other and the rest of us about nature -- the study of how scientists argue in the making of knowledge. In fragmented form, it goes back as long as the two fields have existed, and it makes various appearances throughout the history of each. The studies in this volume are exemplars for rhetoric of science. They chart the field, exhibiting the governing themes of rhetorical criticism when its eye turns to science -- suasive greatness, paradigmatic debates, public policy concerns, and composition issues. Starting at the top, the papers take as their main courses the two disciplines highest in the scientific food chain -- physics and biology -- with side orders of archaeology and experimental psychology. They employ a methodological tool-set largely inherited from Aristotle, but also draw pluralistically on related enterprises, such as pragmatics, ethology, and literary criticism. Engaging the ruling theoretical issues of the field, these studies are landmarks that define the field.

Author : Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Landmark Essays Series
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : 1138695920

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science by Randy Allen Harris Pdf

"A companion to Randy Allen Harris's foundational Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such lumninaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris's detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to modal materialism and neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon" -- publisher.

Author : Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1237764659

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LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORIC OF SCIENCE: CASE STUDIES. by Randy Allen Harris Pdf

Author : Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781932559514

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Rhetoric and Incommensurability by Randy Allen Harris Pdf

Rhetoric and Incommensurability examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion jointly (though not collaboratively) introduced to science studies in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The incommensurability thesis represents the most profound problem facing argumentation and dialogue—in science, surely, but in any symbolic encounter, any attempt to cooperate, find common ground, get along, make better knowledge, and build better societies. This volume brings rhetoric, the chief discipline that studies argumentation and dialogue, to bear on that problem, finding it much more tractable than have most philosophical accounts.

Author : Craig Waddell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 188039328X

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and the Environment by Craig Waddell Pdf

This volume presents some of the best essays yet published on rhetoric and the environment. The collection should appeal to an interdisciplinary audience, including those interested in rhetoric, especially rhetoric of science and/or the environment, environmental studies, and modern American history studies. It should be appropriate for use in graduate or upper-division undergraduate courses in any of these areas as well as by scholars working in these areas. With the exception of the first and last chapters -- which serve to frame the rest of the collection -- the essays are arranged chronologically by the date of the events, texts, or developments they analyze. In this way, the volume can more easily complement or be complemented by such histories of the American environmental movement as those of Fox, Hays, and Shabecoff. The editor's introduction describes his exhaustive selection procedures, provides a brief summary of each of the 11 essays, and suggests directions for further research.

Author : Thomas W. Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000150056

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Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism by Thomas W. Benson Pdf

This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies some act or event that marks a significant achievement or turning point in the progress or decline of human effort. In the history of an academic discipline, the historically established senses of landmark are mixed together, jostling to set out and protect the turfmarkers of academic specialization; aligning footnotes to signify the beacons that have guided thought and, against these "conservative" tendencies, attempting to contribute fresh insights that tempt others along new trails. The editor has chosen essays for this collection that give some sense of the history of rhetorical criticism in this century, especially as it has been practiced in the discipline of speech communication. He also emphasizes materials that may illustrate where the discipline conceives itself to be going -- how it has marked its boundaries; how it has established beacons to invite safety or warn us from the rocks; and how it has sought to preserve a tradition by subjecting it to constant revision and struggle. In the hope of providing some coherence, the scope of this collection is limited to rhetorical criticism as it has been practiced and understood within the discipline of speech communication in North America in this century.

Author : Thomas B. Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000150070

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Landmark Essays on Contemporary Rhetoric by Thomas B. Farrell Pdf

This work brings together the pivotal, scholarly essays responsible for the present resurgence in rhetorical studies. Assembled by one of the most respected senior scholars in the field of rhetoric, the essays chart a course from tradition-based theory of civic rhetoric to ongoing issues of figuration, power, and gender. Together with a lucid introductory essay, these studies help to integrate the still-volatile questions at the core of humanities scholarship in rhetoric. The introductory student as well as the seasoned scholar will gain familiarity and footing in this oldest--and still new--liberal art.

Author : Frank Farmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000150087

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Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing by Frank Farmer Pdf

The essays in this collection give voice to the plurality of approaches that scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have when they set forth to assimilate Bakhtin for their varied purposes. The collection is arranged in three major sections. The first attempts to capture the most important theoretical extensions of Bakhtin's ideas, and does so with an emphasis on what Bakhtin might contribute to the present understanding of language and rhetoric. The next section explores the implications of Bakhtin's work for both disciplinary identity and writing pedagogy. The final section looks at how Bakhtinian thought can be used to bring new light to concerns that his work either does not address or could not have imagined addressing concerns ranging from writing across the curriculum to feminism, and from computer discourse to the writing of a corporation annual report. Together, these essays demonstrate how fruitfully and imaginatively Bakhtin's ideas can be appropriated for a context that he could not have anticipated. They also serve as an invitation to sustain the dialogue with Bakhtin in the future, so that researchers may yet come to realize the fortuitous ways that Bakhtin will continue to mean more than he said.

Author : Thomas B. Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000106862

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Landmark Essays on Contemporary Rhetoric by Thomas B. Farrell Pdf

This work brings together the pivotal, scholarly essays responsible for the present resurgence in rhetorical studies. Assembled by one of the most respected senior scholars in the field of rhetoric, the essays chart a course from tradition-based theory of civic rhetoric to ongoing issues of figuration, power, and gender. Together with a lucid introductory essay, these studies help to integrate the still-volatile questions at the core of humanities scholarship in rhetoric. The introductory student as well as the seasoned scholar will gain familiarity and footing in this oldest--and still new--liberal art.

Author : Richard Leo Enos,Lois Peters Agnew
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1880393328

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Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric by Richard Leo Enos,Lois Peters Agnew Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David R. Gruber,Lynda C. Olman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351207812

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science by David R. Gruber,Lynda C. Olman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science provides a state-of-the-art volume on the language of scientific processes and communications. This book offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science, as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating discussions about future directions within the field. Featuring original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars, as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research, this handbook: identifies common objects of inquiry across the areas of rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication studies, science and technology studies, and public understanding of science covers the four key themes of power, pedagogy, public engagement, and materiality in relation to the study of scientific language and its development uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to demonstrate how humanities and social science scholars can go about studying science details the meaning and purpose of socio-cultural approaches to science, including the impact of new media technologies analyses the history of the field and how it positions itself in relation to other areas of study Ushering the study of language and science toward a more interdisciplinary, diverse, communal and ecological future, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Author : Dmitri Stanchevici
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351864459

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Stalinist Genetics by Dmitri Stanchevici Pdf

Stalinist Genetics focuses on the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of an agrobiological doctrine (Lysenkoism) in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Using not only scientific but also political and ideological arguments, Lysenko achieved an official ban on Soviet Mendelian genetics. Though the ban was brief and Lysenkoism, as a leading biological doctrine, was eventually deposed in favor of Mendelism, Lysenkoism remains a paradigmatic example of pernicious political interference in science. In this study, the critical orientation for reading Lysenko's major speeches is constitutional rhetoric. It combines Kenneth Burke's dialectic of constitutions and rhetoric of the subject. Painting a nuanced picture of intellectual, economic, ideological, and political life in the Soviet Union of the 1930s and 1940s, the book demonstrates how the rhetorics of Lysenkoism and Mendelism interacted with Stalinist culture in the fight for dominating Soviet science. The reader will learn how Lysenko's constitutional rhetoric created a space where scientific terms transformed into political and ideological ones, and vice versa. The book also shows how, in a dialectical flip, the Lysenkoist rhetoric eventually turned from tool to master. Contrary to Lysenko's intentions, his language gave his opponents, Soviet Mendelians, grounds on which to defend their science and criticize Lysenkoism. Stanchevici forcefully reasserts the blurriness of the boundaries between science and politics, and argues that scientific language reveals more plasticity and adaptability to the political situation than has hitherto been assumed. Intended Audience: Scholars in rhetoric, history, and philosophy of science; graduate or upper-division undergraduate course in the rhetoric of science or technical communication.

Author : Lisa Keränen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817317041

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Scientific Characters by Lisa Keränen Pdf

Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the "Datagate" controversy.

Author : Alan G. Gross,Laura J. Gurak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000149784

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The State of Rhetoric of Science and Technology by Alan G. Gross,Laura J. Gurak Pdf

The ubiquity of the Internet and digital technology has changed the sites of rhetorical discourse and inquiry, as well as the methods by which such analyses are performed. This special issue discusses the state of rhetoric of science and technology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While many books connecting rhetorical theory to the Internet have paved the way for more refined and insightful studies of online communication, the articles here serve as a reflective moment, an opportunity to consider thoughtful statements from those who have published and been influential in the field.

Author : James Dale Williams
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0809324296

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Visions and Revisions by James Dale Williams Pdf

Williams (Soka U., California) has compiled nine essays that examine rhetoric and composition from the 1960s to the present: its emergence as a field; the influence of linguistics and psychology in shaping an empirical agenda; the waning of that influence as the field aligned itself more closely with the goals and objectives of traditional English departments; the shift toward postmodern perspectives on language, place, and self; and a move toward post-postmodern concerns. This historical study begins with reminiscences by Richard Lloyd-Jones, W. Ross Winterowd, Frank J. D'Angelo, and John Warnock. The second section examines those changes in detail. For example, Williams makes the connection between rhetoric and democracy, especially the influence of liberal democracy on rhetoric in society. He argues that because our liberal democracy is so focused on entertainment, rhetoric and composition must examine its role in relation to it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR