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This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.

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Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Toward a Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity: Language and Narration Ch. 2: Reading Science Rhetorically Ch. 3: Teaching Technical Writing Ch. 4: Action and Rhetoric Ch. 5: Reason and Desire in Public Discourse: Reading the MOVE Report Ch. 6: Giving an Ordered History: Narrative in the Discourse of the Classroom Ch. 7: Montaigne and the Discourses of Modernity Works Cited Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 7/15/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226893365, 978-0226893365
      ISBN10: 0226893367
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Toward a Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity: Language and Narration Ch. 2: Reading Science Rhetorically Ch. 3: Teaching Technical Writing Ch. 4: Action and Rhetoric Ch. 5: Reason and Desire in Public Discourse: Reading the MOVE Report Ch. 6: Giving an Ordered History: Narrative in the Discourse of the Classroom Ch. 7: Montaigne and the Discourses of Modernity Works Cited Index

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