Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric

Foreword

[Carl Herndl]

Introduction

[Derek G. Ross]

Part I: Framing

1. Proof and Fluid Topics: Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric in Modern Society

[Derek G. Ross]

2. Scientist as Hero, Technology as the Enemy: Commonplaces about Science in Environmental Discourses

[Denise Tillery]

3. Granola-Eating, Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree Huggers Who Want to Take Your Guns: Commonplaces of the Environmentalist

[Beth Jorgensen]

Part II: Place

4. Climate Crisis Made Manifest: The Shift From a Topos of Time To a Topos of Place

[Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen]

5. Victims "in" and Protectors "of" Appalachia: Place and the Common Topic of Protection in Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop, but it Wasn't There

[Joshua P. Ewalt and James G. Cantrill]

6. Remembering the Alamo: Commonplaces in Texas Water Policy Arguments

[Ken Baake]

Part III: Risk and Uncertainty

7. Reconstituting Causality: Accident Reports as Posthuman Documentation

[Daniel Richards]

8. Toward an Apparent Decolonial Feminist Rhetoric of Risk

[Angela M. Haas and Erin A. Frost]

9. Designing Doubt: The Tactical Use of Uncertainty in Hydraulic Fracturing Debates

[Jacqueline N. Kerr]

Part IV: Sustainability

10. Sustainability and Sustainable Development: The Evolution and Use of Confused Notions

[Cynthia R. Haller]

11. The Three Pillars of Sustainability as a Special Topic of Invention in the Marketing Discourse of Plastic-Packaging Companies

[Edward A. Malone and Shristy Bashyal]