Book Review: Segal, Judy Z. (2005). Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Zerbe, Michael J.

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“…The persuasive aspects of science discourse have long been recognized in philosophy of science circles ( Overington, 1977 ). Science and technology studies scholars have also been concerned with tracking scientific discourse, oftentimes to analyze the legitimacy and validity of scientific claim-making (e.g., Zerbe, 2007 ). A subset of such scholarship has been concerned with rhetoric both as a feature of scientific discourse practice and a potential form of knowledge itself ( Gross, 2006 ).…”

Section: Rhetoric Of Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetoric of psychological measurement theory and practice

Slaney,

Graham,

Dhillon

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Metascience scholars have long been concerned with tracking the use of rhetorical language in scientific discourse, oftentimes to analyze the legitimacy and validity of scientific claim-making. Psychology, however, has only recently become the explicit target of such metascientific scholarship, much of which has been in response to the recent crises surrounding replicability of quantitative research findings and questionable research practices. The focus of this paper is on the rhetoric of psychological measurement and validity scholarship, in both the theoretical and methodological and empirical literatures. We examine various discourse practices in published psychological measurement and validity literature, including: (a) clear instances of rhetoric (i.e., persuasion or performance); (b) common or rote expressions and tropes (e.g., perfunctory claims or declarations); (c) metaphors and other “literary” styles; and (d) ambiguous, confusing, or unjustifiable claims. The methodological approach we use is informed by a combination of conceptual analysis and exploratory grounded theory, the latter of which we used to identify relevant themes within the published psychological discourse. Examples of both constructive and useful or misleading and potentially harmful discourse practices will be given. Our objectives are both to contribute to the critical methodological literature on psychological measurement and connect metascience in psychology to broader interdisciplinary examinations of science discourse.

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Section: Rhetoric Of Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%