Download or read book Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context written by Dwight Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest to scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, & applied linguistics, as well as historians, sociolinguists, and education researchers