Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America - Softcover

M. Jimmie Killingsworth; Jacqueline Palmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809331454 ISBN 13: 9780809331451

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2012

Synopsis

In this book, M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer have a twofold purpose: to analyze the patterns of rhetoric used in written discourse about environmental politics and to make a practical contribution to the art of rhetorical criticism through the study of rhetoric in use. The language, professional objectivity, and research programs of scientists insulate these best-informed citizens in enclaves of specialization, limiting access to crucial information and hindering effective reformative action. Science, the authors stress, is not merely a database to rely upon but a view of the world that must be broadened in order to affect social morality. Science-based activism must arise to ensure the care and future of the environment. Killingsworth and Palmer argue that for grassroots activism to be tied to this globally conscious philosophy, a rhetoric of sustainability must be cultivated.

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Review:

"Ecospeak'smind-expanding assessment of the distinctive discourses of environment across a wide range of disciplines and venues has long since established it as the classic, seminal work for the burgeoning field of environmental rhetoric."--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University, author of The Environmental Imagination, Writing for an Endangered World, and The Future of Environmental Criticism.

"Ecospeak continues to be a mainstay in my course on environmental discourse in America. I am as enthusiastic about this book today as I was when I first read it."--Joe Wilferth, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

About the Author:

M. Jimmie Killingworth is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. Jacqueline S. Palmer retired from teaching technical editing and writing at the Texas A & M University Department of English in 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0809331454
• ISBN 13: 9780809331451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328