Topic-driven environmental rhetoric /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Ross, Derek G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in technical communication, rhetoric, and culture ; 4.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Derek G. Ross
  • Framing. Proof and fluid topics: topic-driven environmental rhetoric in modern society / Derek G. Ross
  • Scientist as hero, technology as the enemy: commonplaces about science in environmental discourses / Denise Tillery
  • Granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, tree huggers who want to take your guns: commonplaces of the environmentalist / Beth Jorgensen
  • Place. Climate crisis made manifest: the shift from a topos of time to a topos of place / Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen
  • Victims "in" and protectors "of" Appalachia: place and the common topic of protection in missing mountains: we went to the mountaintop, but it wasn't there / Joshua P. Ewalt and James G. Cantrill
  • Remembering the Alamo: commonplaces in Texas water policy arguments / Ken Baake
  • Risk and uncertainty. Reconstituting causality: accident reports as posthuman documentation / Daniel Richards
  • Toward an apparent decolonial feminist rhetoric of risk / Angela M. Haas and Erin A. Frost
  • Designing doubt: the tactical use of uncertainty in hydraulic fracturing debates / Jacqueline N. Kerr
  • Sustainability. Sustainability and sustainable development: the evolution and use of confused notions / Cynthia R. Haller
  • The three pillars of sustainability as a special topic of invention in the marketing discourse of plastic-packaging companies / Edward A. Malone and Shristy Bashyal.