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Routledge studies in technical communication, rhetoric, and culture ; 4

Introduction / Derek G. Ross

Framing. Proof and fluid topics: topic-driven environmental rhetoric in modern society / Derek G. Ross

Scientist as hero, technology as the enemy: commonplaces about science in environmental discourses / Denise Tillery

Granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, tree huggers who want to take your guns: commonplaces of the environmentalist / Beth Jorgensen

Place. Climate crisis made manifest: the shift from a topos of time to a topos of place / Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen

Victims "in" and protectors "of" Appalachia: place and the common topic of protection in missing mountains: we went to the mountaintop, but it wasn't there / Joshua P. Ewalt and James G. Cantrill

Remembering the Alamo: commonplaces in Texas water policy arguments / Ken Baake

Risk and uncertainty. Reconstituting causality: accident reports as posthuman documentation / Daniel Richards

Toward an apparent decolonial feminist rhetoric of risk / Angela M. Haas and Erin A. Frost

Designing doubt: the tactical use of uncertainty in hydraulic fracturing debates / Jacqueline N. Kerr

Sustainability. Sustainability and sustainable development: the evolution and use of confused notions / Cynthia R. Haller

The three pillars of sustainability as a special topic of invention in the marketing discourse of plastic-packaging companies / Edward A. Malone and Shristy Bashyal.

Rhetoric > Social aspects.

Rhetoric > Social aspects.