Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change

TítuloRhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change
Tipo de publicaciónJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AutoresApplegarth, Risa
JournalCollege Composition and Communication
Volumen63
Incidencia3
Pagination483
Palabras clavegenre, history, professional, rhetoric, science
Resumen

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.