Deadly Documents [[electronic resource] ] : Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust-Lessons from the Rhetorical Work of Everyday Texts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820136103321
• Autore: Ward Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amityville, : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2014
• ISBN: 1-351-86839-X; 0-89503-803-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Collana: Baywood's Technical Communications Series
• Altri autori (Persone): KatzSteven B
• Disciplina: 601.4
• Soggetti: Technical writing - Germany - History - 20th century; Communication of technical information - History - 20th century - Germany; Technical writing - History - 20th century - Germany; Jews - History - Persecutions - 20th century - Germany; Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous - War use
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""