Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jul 2022

Local Knowledge as Illiterate Rhetoric: An Antenarrative Approach to Enacting Socially Just Technical Communication

Isidore K. Dorpenyo

Abstract

In this article, I focus on two competing technical communication discourses used to represent the biometric technology Ghana adopted in 2012 and subsequent elections to demonstrate how communication about technology could potentially marginalize local, nondominant knowledge systems whereas it privileges global, dominant knowledge systems. Representation of the biometric technology, therefore, reflects ways that technical communication can become complicit in silencing, excluding, and marginalizing local voices. I call attention to how communication that focuses on dominant narratives obscures and delegitimizes the knowledge of disenfranchised and less privileged groups.

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
2022-07-01
DOI
10.1177/00472816211030199
Open Access
Closed
Topics
technical communication multilingual writers voice and style

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