Working to Resonate: Rhetorical Mapping of Disciplinary Stances about Technology, Risk, and the Brain

Kathryn Lambrecht

doi:10.1080/10572252.2022.2100484

Working to Resonate: Rhetorical Mapping of Disciplinary Stances about Technology, Risk, and the Brain

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Abstract

Our largest multidisciplinary problems outpace disciplinary training designed to reinforce boundaries. Using an interdisciplinary conversation about adolescent brain imaging, I argue that disciplinary stances (interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary) operate like rhetorical stases, helping diagnose where conversations build or diverge among experts. Because what constitutes interdisciplinarity is contested, mapping rhetorical features of each disciplinary stance stabilizes definitional debates by grounding interactions in specific discursive practices and offers technical communicators ways to facilitate and participate in stronger crossdisciplinary communication.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Technical Communication Quarterly
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2100484
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

Keywords

boundary objects
expertise
Interdisciplinarity
risk
warranting topoi

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Education
Communication

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