Original version
Nordic perspectives on the discourse of things. Sakprosa texts helping us navigate and understand an ever-changing reality. 2023, 17-44, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0_2
Abstract
This chapter presents a theory of texts often used in Scandinavian “sakprosa” research. In the chapter, the constitutive features of any text are presented. It is shown how the text as a cultural artefact has the quality of and at the same time being a unique utterance and instantiating a text norm. In the text theory presented, text is part of a text culture, to which other text sharing similar norms belong. Thus, a “text” is conceived as an utterance that competent participants in a specific cultural time and space assign a certain cultural value.