Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest to scholars of rhetoric, composition, communic
This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original c
A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jürgen Habermas's discourse theo
Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily o
Despite the crucial role played by translation in the history of scientific ideas and the transmission of knowledge, historians of science have seldom been inte