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Rhetorical figures in science / Jeanne Fahnestock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahnestock, Jeanne, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Figures of speech.
- Scientific literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; CHAPTER 1 The Figures as Epitomes; CHAPTER 2 Antithesis; CHAPTER 3 Incrementum and Gradatio; CHAPTER 4 Antimetabole; CHAPTER 5 Ploche and Polyptoton; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772233-4
- 1-280-76157-1
- 0-19-535355-2
- OCLC:
- 252642641
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