From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics, Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication

被引:5
作者
Boedy M. [1 ]
机构
[1] University of North Georgia, United States
关键词
Ethics; pedagogical theory; rhetorical theory;
D O I
10.1080/10572252.2017.1287309
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
To make technical communication scholarship more reflective of the complexity of work done by such communicators, a new concept that marries recent parallel turns to ethics and invention is needed. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a stranger to the field, offers such a concept: responsibility. It covers more explanatory ground than the most cited of ethical concepts, deliberation, and most importantly, centers ethics and invention squarely within the technical communicator’s relationship to language. © 2017 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
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页码:116 / 126
页数:10
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