How Long to Read Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication

How Long Does it Take to Read Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication by Timothy D Giles

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Description

Examination of the work of scientific icons-Newton, Descartes, and others-reveals the metaphors and analogies that directed their research and explain their discoveries. Today, scientists tend to balk at the idea of their writing as rhetorical, much less metaphorical. How did this schism over metaphor occur in the scientific community? To establish that scientists should use metaphors to explain science to the public and need to be conscious of how metaphor can be useful to their research, this book examines the controversy over cloning and the lack of a metaphor to explain it to a public fearful of science's power.The disjunction between metaphor and science is traced to the dispensation of the Solar System Analogy in favor of a mathematical model. Arguing that mathematics is metaphorical, the author supports the idea of all language as metaphorical-unlike many rhetoricians and philosophers of science who have proclaimed all language as metaphorical but have allowed a distinction between a metaphorical use of language and a literal use.For technical communication pedagogy, the implications of this study suggest foregrounding metaphor in textbooks and in the classroom. Though many technical communication textbooks recommend metaphor as a rhetorical strategy, some advise avoiding it, and those that recommend it usually do so in a paragraph or two, with little direction for students on how to recognize metaphors or to how use them. This book provides the impetus for a change in the pedagogical approach to metaphor as a rhetorical tool with epistemological significance.

How long is Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication?

Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication by Timothy D Giles is 189 pages long, and a total of 48,951 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 27 minutes to read Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication aloud.

What Reading Level is Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication?

Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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