Topic-driven environmental rhetoric / edited by Derek G. Ross.
| Other author | Ross, Derek G., editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages ). |
| Supplemental Content | Connect to Taylor and Francis e-book |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in technical communication, rhetoric, and culture ; 4 Routledge studies in technical communication, rhetoric, and culture. ^A1331986 |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Framing; 1 Proof and Fluid Topics: Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric in Modern Society; 2 Scientist as Hero, Technology as the Enemy: Commonplaces about Science in Environmental Discourses; 3 Granola-Eating, Birkenstock-Wearing Tree Huggers Who Want to Take Your Guns: Commonplaces of the Environmentalist; PART II: Place; 4 Climate Crisis Made Manifest: The Shift from a Topos of Time to a Topos of Place. |
| Contents | 5 Victims "in" and Protectors "of" Appalachia: Place and the Common Topic of Protection in Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop, but It Wasn't There; 6 Remembering the Alamo: Commonplaces in Texas Water Policy Arguments; PART III: Risk and Uncertainty; 7 Reconstituting Causality: Accident Reports as Posthuman Documentation; 8 Toward an Apparent Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric of Risk; 9 Designing Doubt: The Tactical Use of Uncertainty in Hydraulic Fracturing Debates; PART IV: Sustainability; 10 Sustainability and Sustainable Development: The Evolution and Use of Confused Notions. |
| Contents | 11 The Three Pillars of Sustainability as a Special Topic of Invention in the Marketing Communication of Plastic-Packaging Companies; List of Contributors; Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Topic-driven environmental rhetoric. New York, NY : Routledge, 2017 1138216569 9781138216563 |
| ISBN | 9781315442037 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1315442035 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781315442044 |
| ISBN | 1315442043 |