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Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things

Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate and Understand an Ever-changing Reality

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  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
  • Draws on fields such as linguistics, text theory, genre analysis, communication and rhetoric
  • Introduces the Scandinavian concept of sakprosa to a wider international audience
  • Includes case studies on digital infrastructures, crisis communication, writing pedagogy and non-fiction prose

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About this book

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. 

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Catharina Nyström Höög

  • Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Henrik Rahm

  • Centre for Academic and Professional Communication, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad

About the editors

Catharina Nyström Höög is Professor of Swedish at the Department for Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include plain language, genre and discourse analysis, organizational discourse, stylistics and text linguistics. 

Henrik Rahm is Associate Professor in Scandinavian Languages at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. Examples of previous research are diachronic journalistic discourse, legitimation strategies of registered nurses and clear language. His latest research includes language use in working life, discourses of state-owned enterprises, language of accounting and ritualization of corporate annual meetings.

Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Head of the Centre for Academic and Professional Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her research interests includelanguage and communication across a variety of professional practices.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things

  • Book Subtitle: Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate and Understand an Ever-changing Reality

  • Editors: Catharina Nyström Höög, Henrik Rahm, Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33121-3Published: 31 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33124-4Published: 31 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33122-0Published: 30 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 166

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Genre, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

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