Overview

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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<p><p> Ecospeak 's mind-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

Ecospeak 's mind-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

<p> Ecospeak 's mind-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

Author Information

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.

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