Rhetorical practices communication

Almost every important French chemist in the middle years of the eighteenth century attended lectures that Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703-70) gave at the King s Garden (the Jardin du roi) in Paris. He was a lively lecturer, dismissive of the theoretical excesses of other lecturers, and anxious to make his lectures be practical demonstrations of chemical phenomena. His style was scarcely that of traditional academics. In the heat of his experiments, he would roll up his sleeves, get his hands and forearms and sometimes his face and shirt dirty, and show how chemistry was above all a science of practice. This was not just rhetoric for Rouelle, practice was a crucial part of chemistry. Rouelle had more than important theoretical ideas to communicate. He had innovative views about principles and instruments, and these views brought together concepts that Stahl had kept distinct. 

Echoing, for rhetorical effect, a sentiment that both Luxemburg and Lenin had uttered, Kollontay claimed that "it is impossible to decree communism. It can be created only in the process of practical research, through mistakes, perhaps, but only by the creative powers of the working class itself. While specialists and officials had a collaborative role of vital importance, "only those who are directly bound to industry can introduce into it animating innovations. ... 

Nevertheless some things seem clear. First, while the requirements in REACH will undoubt ly contribute to increasing knowledge and information concerning the hazardous properties and safe use of far more chemicals in use in Europe than is currently the case, the extent to which the communication of such information and its use lness in practice will be enhanced by the Regulation is less certain. The policy rhetoric behind REACH pl es considerable emphasis on not only how the measures will involve greater requirements on chemical producers to exercise responsible stewardship of their products, but also how such duties will... 

My own work shares with Aristotelian theorists a belief that rhetoric is an inventional art—an art of finding out the available means of persuasion. It couples this Aristotelian perspective with a postmodern and feminist awareness that existing communication practices within industries are shaped and constrained by political and economic assumptions that may inadvertently silence or render invisible the kinds of information that decision makers need to assess and manage risk in hazardous environments. The problem of rhetorical invention—-revisited as problem of discovering or finding... 

If embodied information is not present in written communication, we might ask, where is it to be located In the following chapters, we show how miners deploy both speech and gesture to construct representations of risk that integrate theory and practice. These interviews allow us to examine the rhetorical transformations that occur outside of written communication at critical moments within the Cycle of Technical Documentation within Large Regulatory Industries. 

Simons, H. (1980). Are Scientists rhetors in disguise An analysis of discursive practices within scientific communities. In E. E. White (Ed.), Rhetoric in transition Studies in the nature and uses of rhetoric (pp. 115-130). University Park Penn State University Press. 

Defensively irrational fears of the spread of democratic practices outside the Soviet bloc and also more understandable fears of the spread of communism diie to the latter s influence seem to be connected with these changes, although the economic deeds - as opposed to the rhetoric - of the Comecon countries seem designed to fit in with the West s aims, not to subvert them. Also the Soviet military expansion since the mid-1960s is probably best interpreted as a catching-up exercise, which NATO could always surpass because its members have about one-and-a-half times the population and more than twice the productive capacity of the Warsaw Pact nations. It is also hard to justify all the fears about shortages of raw materials which have... 

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