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

• Main Authors: Nyström Höög, Catharina, Rahm, Henrik, Thomassen Hammerstad, Gøril
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023; Springer International Publishing AG
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Discourse analysis; Genre analysis; Non-fictional prose; Nonfiction; Open Access; Performing Arts; Professional communication; Sociology; Subject-oriented prose; Svenska språket; Swedish
• ISBN: 9783031331220; 3031331222; 9783031331213; 3031331214
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0

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.