Rhetorical Figures in Science - Fahnestock, Jeanne (Faculty of the English Department, Faculty of the English Department, University of Maryland)

This book breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves inscientific texts. Examples, both verbal and visual, range across disciplines and centuries to reaffirm the positive value of these once widely-taught devices.