Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things : Sakprosa Texts Helping Us Navigate and Understand an Ever-changing Reality / / edited by Catharina Nyström Höög, Henrik Rahm, Gøril Thomassen Hammerstad.

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 auth...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (171 pages)
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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. .