Rhetoric in the Human Sciences

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803981783
• ISBN13: 9780803981782
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.