TY - JOUR T1 - Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change JF - College Composition and Communication Y1 - 2012 A1 - Risa Applegarth KW - genre KW - history KW - professional KW - rhetoric KW - science AB -

This study examines how changes in a key scientific genre supported anthropology’s early twentieth-century bid for scientific status. Combining spatial theories of genre with inflections from the register of economics, I develop the concept of rhetorical scarcity to characterize this genre change not as evolution but as manipulation that produces a manufactured situation of intense rhetorical constraint.

VL - 63 SP - 483 CP - 3 ER -