Poroi Apr 2013 Open Access

The Rhetoric of Science Meets the Science of Rhetoric

Randy Harris

Abstract

Thirty years before the beginning of the still ongoing cognitive revolution, Kenneth Burke articulated a universalist program of verbal resources that falls into close synch with many of the findings and principles of that revolution. In this paper, I connect Burke’s program to the insights of Jeanne Fahnestock in her work on figuration and argumentation and argue that cognitive rhetoric in this mode can undergird rhetoric of science.

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Poroi
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2013-04-30
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10.13008/2151-2957.1158
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  1. Gruber et al. (2024)
    A Forum on Neurorhetorics: Conscious of the Past, Mindful of the Future
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  2. Harris (2019)
    The Fourth Master Trope, Antithesis
    Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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