Rhetorics of evidence : science - media - culture / edited by Olaf Kramer and Michael Pelzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kramer, Olaf, editor.

Pelzer, Michael, editor.

Series:

Visual rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Evidence.

rhetoric (discipline).

Logic.

Truth.

truth.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 345 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Sixteen essays examine the use of evidence in culture, media, and science communication, ranging from paleontology, meteorology, neurological science/computation to literature, film, photography, and civic rhetoric. In full color"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Olaf Kramer and Michael Pelzer

Theoretical Approaches : 1. The Telescope. Evidence in Rhetoric / Joachim Knape

2. Evidence in Visual Rhetoric / Thomas Susanka

3. Evidence on the Micro Level: What Rhetoric Can Learn fromHans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone and New Objectivity / Olaf Kramer

Rhetorics of Evidence in Science Communication : 4. Visual Rhetoric and Evidence in Scientific Images : Imaging Brains and Imagining Minds in Cognitive Neuroscience / Kirsten Brukamp

5. Using Images, Films and Colors When Communicating Neuroscientific Results / C. Giovanni Galizia

6. Communicating the Uncertainty in Weather Forecasts / David M. Schultz

7. The Communicative Construction of Evidence : Presentational Knowledge in Computational Neuroscience / Hubert Knoblauch, Eric Lettkemann, and Reň Wilke

8. Narrative, Rhetoric, and Science: Opportunities and Risks / Jenny Rock and Julia Siebert

9. Humans after Heidelbergensis : The Spirited Rhetoric of Paleoanthropology / Jeffery Gentry

10. Civic Science: Applied Rhetoric as a Facilitator of Scientific Knowledge / Colleen E. Kelley

Rhetorics of Evidence in Media and Culture : 11. Beyond Literalism : Reality and Imagination in the Public Image / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites

12. "The Journalism of Tomorrow." Medium-Specific Evidence in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Magazines / Anne Ulrich

13. "The Best Battlefield Scene of All Time": The Feeling of History and the Problem of Realism in Saving Private Ryan / Philipp L̲ffler

14. An Analysis and Criticism of Cha̐m Perelman's Approach to Evidence and Argument as Developed in The New Rhetoric / John W. Ray

15. Carl Friedrich von Weizs̃cker's Rhetorics of Evidence Construction / Klaus Hentschel

16. Timeless Demonstration: Abraham Lincoln's Cooper UnionAddress and Cicero's officia oratoris: To Teach, to Delight, and to Move / William M. Purcell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rhetorics of evidence

ISBN:

9781643174440

1643174444

9781643174457

1643174452

OCLC:

1444152467

Publisher Number:

90100996674