Technical Communication Quarterly
Dec 2008
Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication. Timothy D. Giles. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2008. 178 pp
Janice Tovey
East Carolina University
Abstract
In this interesting argument for the reintroduction of metaphor as a rhetorical strategy for technical communicators, Timothy Giles emphasizes the importance of the metaphor to convey complex conce...
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