Deadly Documents : Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust / Mark Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Mark, 1948- author.

Series:

Baywood's technical communications series.

Baywood's Technical Communications Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication of technical information.

Technical writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars, teachers, and practitioners of organizational, professional, and technical communication and rhetoric are target audiences for a new book that reaches across those disciplines to explore the dynamics of the Holocaust.

Contents:

""Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated?""; ""An Ontological Shift""; ""Revisiting the Final Solution""; ""Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization""; ""The Importance of the Study""; ""CHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons""; ""Origins of European Anti-Semitism""; ""The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism""; ""Development of the Gas Vans""; ""Operational Challenges in the Field""

""CHAPTER 3: The People's Community""""Organizations as Open Systems""; ""Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture""; ""Aspects of SS Organizational Culture""; ""Lines of Organizational Authority""; ""German Bureaucratic Document Protocols""; ""CHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives""; ""Personnel of the Gas Van Program""; ""Individual Relationships and Motives""; ""CHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction""; ""Setting Up the Analyses""; ""Introducing the Documents""; ""CHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers""; ""Constructing the Rhetorical Community""

""A Safety Narrative and Protean Metaphors""""Discovering Organizational Genres in the Texts""; ""Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts""; ""Visuality in the Rhetorical Community""; ""CHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death""; ""What Discourse Analysis Can Add""; ""The Killers Use of Linguistic Resources""; ""Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse""; ""CHAPTER 8: Revisiting Expediency""; ""Boundary Work in Action""; ""Lanzmann and the Why Question""; ""Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations""; ""CHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries""; ""An A historical Consensus?""

""Expediency Without Ethics""""Protecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians""; ""Safeguarding Science and Civilization""; ""Converging on a Comfortable Distance""; ""What the Orderings May Reveal""; ""CHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications""; ""A Bias for Explanation""; ""Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics""; ""Afterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths""; ""References""; ""Index""

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ISBN:

1-351-86839-X

0-89503-803-X

OCLC:

1402028582