Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context : the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975 / / Dwight Atkinson

• Autore: Atkinson Dwight
• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 506/.041
• Soggetto topico: Science - Great Britain - History; Science - Social aspects - Great Britain - History; Historiography - Great Britain - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Overview and Motivations; CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Framework; CHAPTER 2 The Royal Society and Its Philosophical Transactions: A Brief Institutional History; CHAPTER 3 Methods of Analysis and Description of Text Corpus; CHAPTER 4 Rhetorical Analysis; CHAPTER 5 Multidimensional Analysis; CHAPTER 6 Synthesis and Discussion: Scientific Discourse and Scientific Forms of Life; CHAPTER 7 Implications and Conclusions; Appendix A: Contents of "Corpus B"; Appendix B: Ranges of Variation for Overall MD Analysis ; Appendix C: Standard Deviations for Overall MD AnalysisReferences; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the
• Titolo autorizzato: Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context
• ISBN: 1-135-69176-2; 1-282-32579-5; 1-4106-0170-6; 9786612325793; 0-585-14770-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821905103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric, knowledge, and society.