ABSTRACT
This book comes out of a research project at the University of Bergen, Norway, entitled Rhetoric, Knowledge, Mediation. The project, which was funded by the Norwegian Research Council through the programme Research on the Mediation of Culture and Tradition (KULT), was a cross-and multidisciplinary project intended to explore a number of interrelated problem areas linked to the project title’s three terms: • The interrelatedness of language and knowledge: What are the characteristics of
the typical ‘linguistic’ forms and rhetorical devices of research and the sciences, and how is the knowledge produced determined by these ‘linguistic’ features? Are other forms of knowledge imaginable, produced in other kinds of language?
