There’s No Such Thing as a Scientific Controversy

We examine 81 rhetoric and technical communication studies of “scientific controversy.” Our praxiographic analysis reveals that “scientific controversy” is not one thing but three, each staged according to a radically different ontology; yet the literature continues to handle these ontologies the same and to privilege scientists’ demarcation claims in their analysis. We conclude the modifier scientific should be abandoned entirely in controversy studies and recommend an antilogical rather than dialectical approach to controversy.     

Durable Research,Portable Findings: Rhetorical Methods in Case Study Research

ABSTRACT

Case studies have been a central methodology employed by scholars working in the rhetoric of science and technical communication. However, concerns have been raised about how cases are constructed and collected, and what they convey. The authors reflect on how rhetoricians of science and technical communication researchers can – and do – construct a variety of case-based mixed-methods studies in ways that may make our research more portable and durable without undercutting the important and central role of case-based analysis.     

Mirror Neurons in a Group Analysis “Hall of Mirrors”: Translation as a Rhetorical Approach to Neurodisciplinary Writing

This article examines how mirror neuron research from the neurosciences is incorporated by the field of group analysis and made to fit within the history and practices of the field. The approach taken is from science and technology studies’ discussion of “translation” across actor-networks. The article ends with the suggestion that a translation analysis indicates good reason for rhetoric and writing scholars to consider “multiple ontologies” and to understand neurodisciplinary work as invention.     

Incommensurability and Multiple Models: Representations of the Structure of Matter in Undergraduate Chemistry Students

The notion of incommensurability has provided a rationality criterion for the development of scientific theories, as well as some insight into theories developed by students while learning science. However, the relationship between the multiple models held by students and incommensurability requires further discussion. We present the results of empirical work that investigated the multiple models of the structure of the matter held by university students and we analyze these results using the notion of incommensurability. We also point out implications in the construction of students’ scientific models as they move forward in their careers.     

中国视觉修辞研究的进路

通过回顾由陈望道思想所主导的中国20世纪修辞学的研究,20世纪末期以来中国修辞学的积极拓展,20世纪80年代以来对西方视觉修辞研究及相关领域的译介,以及晚近以来中国视觉修辞研究的现状,明确中国的视觉修辞研究发展的瓶颈和理论方向。通过"使用"中国古代的和西方的理论要素,深入中国现实和问题的内在肌理,逐步建构中国的视觉修辞研究。     

Q-Rhetoric and Controlled Equivocation: Revising “The Scientific Study of Subjectivity” for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

ABSTRACT

This article offers a revision to an existing social science methodology, Q methodology, through “Q-Rhetoric.” After detailing Q methodology’s theoretical underpinnings and practical method, and persistent critiques of the methodology, the article employs perspectives from rhetorical theory and Amerindian anthropology to suggest a methodological correction. It concludes by detailing the use of Q-Rhetoric to intervene in a Wisconsin stream management controversy, proposing Q-Rhetoric as a pragmatic and theoretically sound methodology for working across disciplinary divides.     

汉字修辞可以构成修辞格

长期以来,大多数学者都认为,利用汉字的形体进行修辞不能构成修辞格,究其原因,实为人们囿于语言三要素理论的结果。从理论和人们的修辞实践来看,汉字修辞完全可以构成修辞格。     

科学文本研究中篇际语境分析的本质和特征

篇际语境分析具有语境化、修辞性和文本性等主要特征,它强调对科学文本自身及其相关的篇际语境进行探讨,能够从文本之间关系角度加深对科学文本的理解,较为全面地把握科学文本所处的篇际语境以及系统地分析其修辞的使用,对科学文本的解读会更清晰。     

突变理论在医学上的应用

突变理论是以拓扑学、奇点理论为工具,对不连续现象做定性研究的新兴数学分支;介绍了突变理论的数学基础和突变种类。同时,应用突变理论,对中医学领域中“正”与“邪”的突变进行了探讨,并介绍了突变理论在西方医学中的应用。     

一部独具特色的修辞学学著作——评王希杰《汉语修辞论》

《汉语修辞论》是一部独具特色的修辞学学著作：明确提出了对修辞学说的评价和选择标准;揭示了修辞学的科学结构,讨论了修辞学的基本概念和基本范畴;探讨了修辞学研究的方法和方法论原则;总结了20世纪汉语修辞学的主要成果,展示了汉语修辞学研究的历史演进的大致脉络,指明了修辞学的发展方向;讨论了修辞学说和研究主体、社会时代、传统文化的关系;反思了修辞学的社会形象、社会功能等问题。全书具有四大特点：客观公正的科学精神,高瞻远瞩的学科发展论,精辟独到的学术见解,独具特色的写作范式。     

努力锤炼医疗语言 更好地为患者服务——同临床专业学生谈学习医疗语言

修辞是提高语言表达效果的科学。修辞的原则是得体,即语言的表达要得体。医疗语言是医务人员从事医疗工作的书面语以及与患者交流的口语和体态语。医疗语言也应讲究修辞,而所遵守的原则当然也应是得体。这对提高医务人员素质、改善医患关系和塑造医务工作者良好形象都具有重要意义。医疗语言应简明通俗,准确规范;用语谨慎,注意保密;用语文明,注重礼貌;恰当得体,注重体态语。