Theoretical Perspective: The Roles of Rhetoric in The Public Understanding of Science  

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Gross, Alan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 3 no. 1 (Jan. 1994), page 3-23.
Fulltext: 3PUS31.pdf (1.21MB)

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In the public understanding of science. rhetoric has two distinct roles: it is both a theory capable of analysing public understanding and an activity capable of creating it. In its analytical role, rhetoric reveals two dominant models of public undenvdnding: the deficit model and the contextual model. In the deficit model. rhetoric acts in the minor role of creating public undenldnding by accommodating the facts and methods of science to public needs and limitations. In the contextudl model, rhetoric and rhetorical analysis pldy major roles. Rhetorical analysis provides an independent source of evidence lo secure social scientific claims: in addition. if supplies the grounds for a rhetoric of reconstruction. one that reconstitutes the fact and facts of science in the public interest.

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