Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication) - Softcover

Baake, Ken

 
9780791457443: Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication)

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Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science.

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Ken Baake is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Texas Tech University.

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9780791457436: Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication)

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ISBN 10:  0791457435 ISBN 13:  9780791457436
Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 2003
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