Title: Rhetorical figures in science
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Figures of speech, Scientific literature, Language arts &amp; disciplines, Linguistics
LC classification: PN227 .F34 1999