과학 교재의 수사학 : 『소리와 음악(Sound and Music)』의 서사 분석

Abstract

Analyzing the rhetoric of a scientific text is based on the recognition that science communicates by employing the language. The paper intends to show that the narrative analysis which has been tried in analyzing general texts in rhetoric are appropriate and beneficial in analyzing scientific textbooks, too. Sedley Taylor’s Sound and Music which was widely used as textbook for teaching music students in the late nineteenth century is an object suitable for rhetorically analyzing how the effort to teach nonexperts the basis of science was made. The range of analyzing scientific educational texts has been extended by extensively recognizing the narrative as activities including human life and thinking process. According to the criteria of Water Fishers narrative rationality, the textbook satisfies the structural and material coherence through selecting and arranging appropriate contents as well as the characteristic coherence through providing contents while considering the features of readers who are to work for music but lacking in scientific knowledge. It mobilizes the narrative reliability by relying on reasoning and experiment as well as the authority of Helmholtz, a superb expert of acoustics at that time. However, it exposes the lack of narrative truthfulness by the misunderstanding of Helmholtzs theory of consonance and dissonance.