Deadly documents : technical communication, organizational discourse, and the Holocaust : lessons from the rhetorical work of everyday texts /: technical communication, organizational discourse, and the Holocaust : lessons from the rhetorical work of everyday texts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark Ward.
• Authors: Ward, Mark, 1958-
• Contents: Preface by Mark Ward, Sr. 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 Ahistorical 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; Steven B. Katz; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 601.4; Communication of technical information -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Technical writing -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351868396
• Related ISBNs: 9781351868402; 9781351868389; 9781315232553
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