Rhetorical logic and the integration of rhetoric and science

Prelli, Lawrence J.

doi:10.1080/03637759009376206

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“…After all, the evidentiary support for evolutionary processes is overwhelming and, as Prelli (1990) recently noted, "consistency with received knowledge . .…”

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Of audience, expertise and authority: The evolving creationism debate

Taylor

1992

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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“…After all, the evidentiary support for evolutionary processes is overwhelming and, as Prelli (1990) recently noted, "consistency with received knowledge . .…”

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“…According to this argument, if one claims to be scientific, one ought to be bound by the prevailing evaluative standards of science. To transgress those standards, then, is to reveal oneself as a "non-scientist" (Gilbert and Mulkay, 1982;Prelli, 1989aPrelli, , 1989bPrelli, , 1990.…”

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Of audience, expertise and authority: The evolving creationism debate

Taylor

1992

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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“…attitudes toward subjects like weather or natural hazard forecasts (Locke 1999;Prelli 1990). For example, the decision to change driving routes to avoid hazardous snow communicates a value of keeping oneself safe, a commonplace that is shared across many members of the community.…”

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Improving Visual Communication of Weather Forecasts with Rhetoric

Lambrecht

Hatchett

Walsh

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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Communicating weather-related hazards to the public can be a challenge for meteorologists, particularly given the nature of confidence levels in forecasting science. Despite these challenges, communicating high-impact weather remains extremely important because it has implications for the safety, health, and resilience of impacted communities. Because the dynamics of this issue are complex, solutions to weather hazard communication benefit from interdisciplinary solutions and multiple types of expertise. Our work demonstrates how rhetoric, a foundational communication discipline, can be applied to improving weather forecast communication. Applying a rhetorical framework allows the identification of communication strategies that not only invite public involvement but encourage users to act as conduits for weather information distribution. As a result, trust can be developed between the National Weather Service (NWS) and public audiences. The initial results support the hypothesis that effective public communication from NWS messaging can be improved by incorporating the concept of “commonplaces,” which are the expressions of beliefs, values, and norms that construct community attitudes toward weather or natural hazard forecasts, into visual communication techniques such as NWS Weather Stories.

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“…Topical analysis seems especially well suited to this task because, as a method, it not only applies to discourses within any "field" or "sphere" but also looks to expose the special valuational and thematic premises used to constrain situated judgment about potentially divisive issues. As Prelli (1990) described it, "the field-invariant nature of topical analysis, taken generally, allows systematic analysis of any rhetorical discourse whatsoever. But such analysis of discourse used in any selfconscious community of persons brings into view that group's special inventional precepts and patterns of judgmentits special topical logic.…”

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Sex Control Technology and Reproductive "Choice": The Conflation of Technical and Political Argument in the New Science of Human Reproduction

Stearney

1996

Commun Theory

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This essay analyzes the discourse surrounding one of the new reproductive technologies, sex "choice," which allows prospective parents to control for male offspring through sperm separation technology. Topical analysis is used to make the case that the deployment of political claims within technical argument serves only to mystify audiences and obscure ideological motives. This analysis reveals the standards of appropriateness suited to judging both technical and public claims. Feminist critiques of reproductive technologies provide emancipatory criteria for judging new technologies. Both standards, those of appropriateness to a specific realm and those of emancipation, are necessary to judge the selection of "choice" as the descriptor of technologies that will most likely narrow women2 choices as individuils and a group. The essay takes the position that making distinctions between the different spheres of argument is necessary for judging the appropriateness of standards proffered within each sphere. Neither standards appropriate to any individual sphere nor 'yusion discourse," which bridges spheres, should be confused with idealized and transcendent emancipatory criteria.

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Rhetorical logic and the integration of rhetoric and science

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

Of audience, expertise and authority: The evolving creationism debate

Of audience, expertise and authority: The evolving creationism debate

Improving Visual Communication of Weather Forecasts with Rhetoric

Sex Control Technology and Reproductive "Choice": The Conflation of Technical and Political Argument in the New Science of Human Reproduction

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