Beverly A Sauer

The Rhetoric of Risk

Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines rhetorical practices relating to situations of risk, and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. For scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780805836851
• ISBN-10: 0805836853
• Artikelnr.: 22214790

Autorenporträt

Beverly A. Sauer

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Editor's Introduction. Introduction: The Rhetoric of Risk. Part
I: The Problem of Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments.
Regulating Hazardous Environments: The Problem of Documentation. Moments of
Transformation: The Cycle of Technical Documentation in Large Regulatory
Industries. Acknowledging Uncertainty: Rethinking Rhetoric in a Hazardous
Environment. Part II: Moments of Transformation. Reconstructing Experience:
The Rhetorical Interface Between Agencies and Experience. Learning From
Experience: Enlarging the Agency's Perspective in Training and Instruction.
Warrants for Judgment: The Textual Representation of Embodied Sensory
Experience. Part III : Documenting Experience. Embodied Experience:
Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture. Manual Communication: The
Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture. Part IV: Transforming
Experience. Capturing Experience: The Moment of Transformation. Conclusion:
The Last Canary?