Title: The rhetoric of risk : technical documentation in hazardous environments /
Authors: Sauer, Beverly J.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Risk communication.
Contents: Introduction: The Rhetoric of Risk -- I. The Problem of Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments. 1. Regulating Hazardous Environments: The Problem of Documentation. 2. Moments of Transformation: The Cycle of Technical Documentation in Large Regulatory Industries. 3. Acknowledging Uncertainty: Rethinking Rhetoric in a Hazardous Environment -- II. Moments of Transformation. 4. Reconstructing Experience: The Rhetorical Interface Between Agencies and Experience. 5. Learning From Experience: Enlarging the Agency's Perspective in Training and Instruction. 6. Warrants for Judgment: The Textual Representation of Embodied Sensory Experience -- III. Documenting Experience. 7. Embodied Experience: Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture. 8. Manual Communication: The Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture -- IV. Transforming Experience. 9. Capturing Experience: The Moment of Transformation. 10. Conclusion: The Last Canary?