Breakthroughs and disasters: The (ethical) use of future-oriented metaphors in science communication

Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 201-218

  Nerlich, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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