Nordic Perspectives On The Discourse Of Things: Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate And Understand An Ever-Changing Reality

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.

• | Author: Catharina Nyström Höög, Henrik Rahm, Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 177 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3031331249
• | ISBN-13: 9783031331244