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Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change
Applegarth, Risa
College Composition and Communication, v63 n3 p453-483 Feb 2012
This study examines how changes in a key scientific genre supported anthropology's early twentieth-century bid for scientific status. Combining spatial theories of genre with inflections from the register of economics, I develop the concept of "rhetorical scarcity" to characterize this genre change not as evolution but as manipulation that produces a manufactured situation of intense rhetorical constraint. (Contains 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Epistemology, Science Education, Figurative Language, Literary Genres, Higher Education, Theories, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences, Rhetoric
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