Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Overview and Motivations -- CHAPTER 1 Conceptual Framework -- CHAPTER 2 The Royal Society and Its Philosophical Transactions: A Brief Institutional History -- CHAPTER 3 Methods of Analysis and Description of Text Corpus -- CHAPTER 4 Rhetorical Analysis -- CHAPTER 5 Multidimensional Analysis -- CHAPTER 6 Synthesis and Discussion: Scientific Discourse and Scientific Forms of Life -- CHAPTER 7 Implications and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Contents of "Corpus B" -- Appendix B: Ranges of Variation for Overall MD Analysis -- Appendix C: Standard Deviations for Overall MD Analysis -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Summary
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the
