Deadly documents : technical communication, organizational discourse, and the Holocaust : lessons from the rhetorical work of everyday texts / Mark Ward, Sr., University of Houston-Victoria ; afterword by Steven B. Katz
Published
Amityville, New York : Baywood Pub. Company, Inc., [2013]
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 CommunityOrganizations 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 MetaphorsDiscovering 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 EthicsProtecting 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
