Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things : Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate and Understand an Ever-changing Reality
Nyström Höög, Catharina ; Rahm, Henrik LU and Thomassen Hammerstad, Gøril (2023)- Abstract
- This open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly translates as ‘subject-oriented prose’ or ‘professional communication’. The authors examine the written text’s capacity to transcend contextual boundaries, as a crucial factor in the importance of capturing and maintaining content as a manageable entity. The chapters each deal with a text type that manages complex content in a specialized way, including genre shifting in CSR reports, discourse networks in modern digital culture, digital and social media crisis communication, and epistemic positions in non-fiction. This... (More)
- This open access book deals with the role of written texts in an increasingly diverse and dynamic society, bringing together a series of studies anchored in the Scandinavian research tradition of sakprosa, which roughly translates as ‘subject-oriented prose’ or ‘professional communication’. The authors examine the written text’s capacity to transcend contextual boundaries, as a crucial factor in the importance of capturing and maintaining content as a manageable entity. The chapters each deal with a text type that manages complex content in a specialized way, including genre shifting in CSR reports, discourse networks in modern digital culture, digital and social media crisis communication, and epistemic positions in non-fiction. This book is relevant to fields such as text research, professional/digital communication, discourse analysis and literacy studies, and may also be of interest to disciplines such as history, rhetoric, organization studies, media studies/journalism, and linguistics. (Less)
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- Nyström Höög, Catharina ; Rahm, Henrik LU and Thomassen Hammerstad, Gøril
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-07-31
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- Book/Report
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- non-fictional prose, subject-oriented prose, Professional communication, genre analysis, discourse analysis, Open Access
- pages
- 166 pages
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- 978-3-031-33122-0
- 978-3-031-33121-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0
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- English
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- yes
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- 93d2cb68-7c70-44cd-9f37-3beeaecf9cd8
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