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Tropes, history, and ethics in professional discourse and information science

✍ Scribed by Day, Ronald E.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

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✦ Synopsis

This article argues that professional discourses tend to align themselves with dominant ideological and social forces by means of language. In twentieth century modernity, the use of the trope of "science" and related terms in professional theory is a common linguistic device through which professions attempt social self-advancement. This article examines how professional discourses, in particular those which are foundational for library and information science theory and practice, establish themselves in culture and project history-past and future-by means of appropriating certain dominant tropes in a culture's language. This article suggests that ethical and political choices arise out of the rhetoric and practice of professional discourse, and that these choices cannot be confined to the realm of professional polemics.

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