Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things: Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate and Understand an Ever-changing Reality

Nyström Höög, Catharina; Rahm, Henrik; Thomassen Hammerstad, Gøril

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. 

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-07-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031331213

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 166.0