Rhetorical figures in science / Jeanne Fahnestock.
Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts. Examples, both verbal and visual, range across disciplines...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Summary: | Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts. Examples, both verbal and visual, range across disciplines and centuries to reaffirm the positive value of these once widely-taught devices. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195353556 0195353552 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |