Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change

Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change

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 chan...

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Veröffentlicht in:College composition and communication 2012-02, Vol.63 (3), p.453-483
1. Verfasser: Applegarth, Risa
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Academic discourse
Anthropology
Communities
Community Relations
Creativity
Cultural anthropology
Ecosystems
Epistemology
Ethnography
Evolution
Field research
Figurative Language
Higher Education
Inflection (Morphology)
Intellectual Disciplines
Linguistic anthropology
Literary Genres
Political anthropology
Research Methodology
Resource Materials
Rhetoric
Scarcity
Science Education
Social Sciences
Teaching Methods
Theories
Writing (Composition)
Writing Instruction
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006
DOI:10.58680/ccc201218446