Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context : the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975 / Dwight Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Dwight.

Contributor:

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Series:

Rhetoric, knowledge, and society.

Rhetoric, knowledge, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal Society (Great Britain)--History.

Royal Society (Great Britain).

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Science--Great Britain--History.

Science.

Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Historiography--Great Britain--History.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Overview and Motivations; CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Framework; CHAPTER 2 The Royal Society and Its Philosophical Transactions: A Brief Institutional History; CHAPTER 3 Methods of Analysis and Description of Text Corpus; CHAPTER 4 Rhetorical Analysis; CHAPTER 5 Multidimensional Analysis; CHAPTER 6 Synthesis and Discussion: Scientific Discourse and Scientific Forms of Life; CHAPTER 7 Implications and Conclusions; Appendix A: Contents of "Corpus B"; Appendix B: Ranges of Variation for Overall MD Analysis

Appendix C: Standard Deviations for Overall MD AnalysisReferences; Author Index; Subject Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-69176-2

1-282-32579-5

1-4106-0170-6

9786612325793

0-585-14770-1

9781410601704

OCLC:

476266574