Rhetorical Figures in ScienceRhetorical 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER 1 The Figures as Epitomes | 3 |
CHAPTER 2 Antithesis | 45 |
CHAPTER 3 Incrementum and Gradatio | 86 |
CHAPTER 4 Antimetabole | 122 |
CHAPTER 5 Ploche and Polyptoton | 156 |
Notes | 195 |
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Common terms and phrases
agent animals antanaclasis antimetabole antith antithesis apes aposiopesis appears archaeopteryx argu arguer Aristotle Aristotle's attraction audience Bacon body brain brown dwarfs catachresis causal century chapter chiasmus Cicero claim cola colon commutative laws conceptual connection construction contraries contrast create Darwin defined definition devices effect electricity Electrick electrified electrised emotion enthymeme epitomized example experimental experiments explain expressed Faraday figures of speech figures of thought fossil functional gradatio grammatical Hauksbee Herennium human Huxley hyperbaton identified incrementum intermediate kind Koch's postulates Lamarck language lines of argument magnet manuals meaning metaphor nature Newton noun opposed terms opposite organism pair passage pattern Peacham phrases ploche polyptoton possible potential precise predication produce Quintilian Quintilian 1921 repetition reversal Rhetorica ad Herennium rhetorical scale semantic sense sentence speaker species structure style stylistic syllepsis syntactic theory thing tion Topics tradition tropes tube usage verb verbal visual wire words
References to this book
Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice Christopher W. Tindale No preview available - 2004 |
Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary-language Approach M. Jimmie Killingsworth No preview available - 2005 |