Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 0791457435 | edition 2003 | PDF | 208 pages | 19,8 mb
Whenever scientists are involved in interdisciplinary projects to simulate phenomena of complex physico-chemical, biotic, or socio-economic systems, they are bound to face communication problems while applying basic disciplinary terms and using metaphors for their conceptual models. As a biologist, I found this analysis of language issues among scientists to be rigorous and thought-provoking.