Overview
- 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
Keywords
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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