Free Download Mark Ward, "Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust: Lessons from the Rhetorical Work"
English | ISBN: 0895038021 | 2014 | 251 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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. 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 Holocaust―Lessons 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 Group―the bureau that managed the Nazi mobile gas van program―author Mark Ward shows how everyday texts functioned as "boundary objects" on which competing organizational interests could project their own interpretations and temporarily negotiate consensus for their parts in the Final Solution.