{"product_id":"deadly-documents-technical-communication-organizational-discourse-and-the-holocaust-lessons-from-the-rhetorical-work-of-everyday-texts-baywoods-technical-communications-9780895038012","title":"Deadly Documents Technical Communication","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars, 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. More than a history, the book uses the extreme case of the Final Solution to illumine the communicative constitution of organizations and to break new ground on destructive organizational communication and ethics. Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the HolocaustLessons from the Rhetorical Work of Everyday Texts starts with a microcosmic look at a single Nazi bureau. Through close rhetorical, visual, and discursive analyses of organizational and technical documents produced by the SS Security Police Technical Matters Groupthe bureau that managed the Nazi mobile gas van programauthor Mark Ward shows how everyday texts functioned as boundary objects on which competing organizational interests could project their own interpre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface by Mark Ward, Sr. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated? \u003cbr\u003e An Ontological Shift \u003cbr\u003e Revisiting the Final Solution \u003cbr\u003e Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization \u003cbr\u003e The Importance of the Study \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons \u003cbr\u003e Origins of European Anti-Semitism \u003cbr\u003e The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism \u003cbr\u003e Development of the Gas Vans \u003cbr\u003e Operational Challenges in the Field \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3: The People’s Community \u003cbr\u003e Organizations as Open Systems \u003cbr\u003e Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture \u003cbr\u003e Aspects of SS Organizational Culture \u003cbr\u003e Lines of Organizational Authority \u003cbr\u003e German Bureaucratic Document Protocols\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives \u003cbr\u003e Personnel of the Gas Van Program \u003cbr\u003e Individual Relationships and Motives \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction \u003cbr\u003e Setting Up the Analyses \u003cbr\u003e Introducing the Documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers \u003cbr\u003e Constructing the Rhetorical Community \u003cbr\u003e A “Safety” Narrative and Protean Metaphors\u003cbr\u003e Discovering Organizational Genres in the Texts\u003cbr\u003e Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts \u003cbr\u003e Visuality in the Rhetorical Community \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death \u003cbr\u003e What Discourse Analysis Can Add \u003cbr\u003e The Killers’ Use of Linguistic Resources\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8: Revisiting “Expediency” \u003cbr\u003e Boundary Work in Action \u003cbr\u003e Lanzmann and the “Why” Question \u003cbr\u003e Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries \u003cbr\u003e An Ahistorical Consensus? \u003cbr\u003e Expediency Without Ethics \u003cbr\u003e Protecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians \u003cbr\u003e Safeguarding Science and Civilization \u003cbr\u003e Converging on a Comfortable Distance\u003cbr\u003e What the Orderings May Reveal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications \u003cbr\u003e A Bias for Explanation \u003cbr\u003e Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths \u003cbr\u003e Steven B. Katz \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baywood Publishing Company Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406490542423,"sku":"9780895038012","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deadly-documents-technical-communication-organizational-discourse-and-the-holocaust-lessons-from-the-rhetorical-work-of-everyday-texts-baywoods-technical-communications-9780895038012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}