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This book illuminates how science fiction studies can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in science and engineering. Shortly before science fiction got its name, a new paradigm connected whiteness and masculinity to the advancement of civilization. In order to show how science fiction authors supported the social construction of these gender and racial norms – and also challenged them – this study analyzes the impact of three major editors and the authors in their orbits: Hugo Gernsback; John W. Campbell, Jr.; and Judith Merril. Supported by a fresh look at archival sources and the author’s experience teaching Science and Technology Studies at universities on three continents, this study demonstrates the interconnections among discourses of imperialism, masculinity, and innovation. Readers gain insights into fighting prejudice, the importance of the community of authors and readers, and ideas about how to challenge racism, sexism, and xenophobia in new creative work. This stimulating book demonstrates how education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can be enhanced by adding the liberal arts, such as historical and literary studies, to create STEAM. Dr Christopher Leslie is an independent scholar who has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Universität Potsdam, Germany; and the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou.

Science --- Communication in science. --- Rhetoric. --- Technology. --- Science. --- Literature. --- Culture --- Mass media and culture. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Rhetoric of Science and Technology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Media Culture. --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching.

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This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic discourse, and evaluates the positive and/or negative effects it has on international academic communication. Issues such as the role of intertextuality, cross-cultural variations, and the notion of “academic discourse community” are also touched upon. Special attention is paid to the modern developments in contrastive rhetoric studies, as well as to the controversial issue of the use of context-based versus corpus-based methods. The corpus under investigation consists of academic book reviews in English and German with a clearly stated negative character, as well as a series of publications in English interrelated by the fact that they discuss a common group of problems but from two fully confrontative points of view. They illustrate what has been called an “academic war”. Some related theoretical issues are also discussed, including the role of evaluation in academic communication, the relationship between criticism, critique, negative evaluation, and confrontation in academic communication, as well as the importance of culture, discipline culture, and communities of practice. The contrastive discourse analysis demonstrates differences between English and German in terms of the rhetorical strategies employed by review writers to express criticism. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic communication and rhetorics, as well as teachers in English/German for academic purposes. Irena Vassileva is Professor of English and German Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Academic disputations. --- Academic writing. --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Disputations, Academic --- Debates and debating --- Dissertations, Academic --- Linguistics --- Penmanship. --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric. --- Communication in science. --- Technology. --- Science. --- Germanic languages. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Writing Skills. --- Rhetorics. --- Rhetoric of Science and Technology. --- Germanic Languages. --- Methodology. --- Style. --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Writing --- Language arts --- Teutonic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Speaking --- Expression --- Study and teaching --- Rhetoric