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 communica...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Nyström Höög, Catharina (Editor), Rahm, Henrik (Editor), Thomassen Hammerstad, Gøril (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Knowledge, Sociology of. Film genres. Linguistics-Methodology. Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. Genre Studies. Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: A discourse of things. Nordic perspectives on texts negotiating issues that matter in professional communication
Chapter 2: Texts complying with societal pressures - Changing genres in Finnish companies' CSR reporting
Chapter 3: Subject-oriented prose in digital discourse networks: digital media as a socio-material condition for access and circulation
Chapter 4: Crisis communication on social media: Informalization in the hour-by-hour struggle for information
Chapter 5: Sheep, watchdogs and wolves as epistemic positions: How a master's programme in non-fiction writing produced and reflected an epistemic practice for the field of sakprosa in Norway
Chapter 6: Postscript: The Power and Potential of the Concept Sakprosa (CPS) A guided tour through five topoi. .