Rhetoric in the Human Sciences
- ISBN-10
- 0803981783
- ISBN-13
- 9780803981782
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989-01-01
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Author
- Herbert W Simons
Description
Scholars of every sort inevitably make stylistic choices, name and frame issues, appeal to communal values, adapt arguments to ends, audiences and circumstances. Yet the myth persists that `good' scholarship consists of hard fact and cold logic, devoid of all rhetoric; that the assent given to scholarly claims is somehow independent of the language used to communicate and defend them.
Rhetoric in the Human Sciences demonstrates that the rhetorical dimensions of scholarly discourse can no longer be ignored. The authors illustrate the usefulness of rhetorical theory, bringing its tools and perspectives to bear on such diverse subjects as language acquisition, television viewing, ethnographic writing, psychotherapy, jur
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