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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10858683.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. The Figures as Epitomes. The Dominance of Metaphor. The Classical Tradition of the Figures. Theories of Figuration. The Figures as Epitomes of Lines of Reasoning. Boundary Problems. Verbal Spread and Visual Concision. The Figures in Scientific Discourse -- Ch. 2. Antithesis. The Aristotelian Definition of Antithesis. The History of the Figure. The Uses of Antithesis in Argument. Arguing from Existing Semantic Contrasts. The "False Window": Using the Form to Force Terms Apart. Arguments that Change the Nature of Opposition -- Ch. 3. Incrementum and Gradatio. Undoing Antitheses. Figures that Construct Series. The Uses of Incrementum and Gradatio in Argument. Creating Places with Series. Incomplete Series. Double Hierarchy Arguments. The Gradatio as Sorites. Merging Categories. Series Reasoning in Darwin's The Origin of Species -- Ch. 4. Antimetabole. The Semantics and Syntax of the Antimetabole. History of the Figure. Argumentative Uses of the Antimetabole. The Antimetabole and Causality. Refutation by Reversal -- Ch. 5. Ploche and Polyptoton. Figures of Repetition. Perfect Repetition: Ploche. Polyptoton. The Argumentative Resources of Polyptoton. Ploche, Polyptoton, and the Science of Electricity in the Eighteenth Century.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 234 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195117506".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "808 21".
- catalog subject "Figures of speech.".
- catalog subject "PN227 .F34 1999".
- catalog subject "Scientific literature".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The Figures as Epitomes. The Dominance of Metaphor. The Classical Tradition of the Figures. Theories of Figuration. The Figures as Epitomes of Lines of Reasoning. Boundary Problems. Verbal Spread and Visual Concision. The Figures in Scientific Discourse -- Ch. 2. Antithesis. The Aristotelian Definition of Antithesis. The History of the Figure. The Uses of Antithesis in Argument. Arguing from Existing Semantic Contrasts. The "False Window": Using the Form to Force Terms Apart. Arguments that Change the Nature of Opposition -- Ch. 3. Incrementum and Gradatio. Undoing Antitheses. Figures that Construct Series. The Uses of Incrementum and Gradatio in Argument. Creating Places with Series. Incomplete Series. Double Hierarchy Arguments. The Gradatio as Sorites. Merging Categories. Series Reasoning in Darwin's The Origin of Species -- Ch. 4. Antimetabole. The Semantics and Syntax of the Antimetabole. History of the Figure. Argumentative Uses of the Antimetabole. The Antimetabole and Causality. Refutation by Reversal -- Ch. 5. Ploche and Polyptoton. Figures of Repetition. Perfect Repetition: Ploche. Polyptoton. The Argumentative Resources of Polyptoton. Ploche, Polyptoton, and the Science of Electricity in the Eighteenth Century.".
- catalog title "Rhetorical figures in science / Jeanne Fahnestock.".
- catalog type "text".