Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric (Routledge Studies in by Derek G. Ross

By Derek G. Ross

Common issues and commonplaces aid increase arguments and form knowing. while utilized in argumentation, they might aid events extra successfully speak important details. the aim of this edited assortment on subject matters of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship regarding particular, specific, topical communique strategies. The chapters during this assortment deal with 4 overarching components of universal themes in technical conversation and environmental rhetoric: framing, position, possibility and uncertainty, and sustainability. In addressing those concerns, this assortment bargains insights for college students and students of rhetoric, in addition to for environmental verbal exchange practitioners trying to find a extra nuanced realizing of ways topic-driven rhetoric shapes attitudes, ideals, and decision-making.

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