Writing the social text : poetics and politics in social science discourse / Richard Harvey Brown, editor.

Other author Brown, Richard Harvey.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : A. de Gruyter, ©1992.
Descriptionx, 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCommunication and social order
Communication and social order.
Contents Poetics, politics, and truth : an invitation to rhetorical analysis / Richard Harvey Brown -- Text/context : the rhetoric of the social sciences / Julie Thompson Klein -- The interpretation of disciplinary writing / Charles Bazerman -- No anthro-apologies, or der(r)iding a discipline / Renée Denūvo -- Textual form and social formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss / Michael Herzfeld -- Communication, persuasion, and the establishment of academic disciplines : the case of American psychology / David E. Leary -- Poetics and politics in ethnographic texts : a view from the colonial ethnography of Afghanistan / Jon W. Anderson -- Listening for the silences : the rhetorics of the research field / Joseph R. Gusfield -- The rhetoric efficiency : applied social science as depoliticization / Hilkka Summa -- Fact, fiction, and factions : scandal, controversy, and "filemaking" as social theory / Carl Milofsky -- Human needs and control : a foundation for human science and critique / Paul Sites -- Narration, reason, and community / Walter R. Fisher -- From suspicion to affirmation : post-modernism and the challenges of
Local noteLittle-281641--305130039632Z
General noteBased on two conferences held at the University of Maryland in 1989.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91019147
ISBN0202303861 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN020230387X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks H61.W86 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold