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Routledge eBooks, Nov 3, 2022
HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 2017
From 1999 to 2001 I was head of administrative communication in a local council in Denmark. There... more From 1999 to 2001 I was head of administrative communication in a local council in Denmark. There I was responsible for authoring and publishing service information pamphlets. I never had any complaints from the citizens who were supposed to read the pamphlets. And that made me worried. So worried that I have now spent a year analysing not only the pamphlets, but also their reception in the target population. In this article I shall make a genre analysis of the service information pamphlet and I shall compare the results of the genre analysis with the basic results of the reception analysis.
Journalism Studies, 2015
Meta framing and polyphonic structures: A case study of news reporting in sports journalism.
SAGE Open, 2014
Changing the language in an organization is a major organizational change. In this article, I dis... more Changing the language in an organization is a major organizational change. In this article, I discuss some of the organizational challenges for one specific language change implementation, taking the stance that language change must be treated as any other organizational change for it to have an effect. I work with the case of the Danish tax authorities' language project aimed at producing more readable letters. The empirical data that I work with are two qualitative informant interviews. One recorded at the language project's headquarters where they lay out the general lines for the project, and the other at the payment center where they use the revised letters.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 3, 2022
HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 2017
From 1999 to 2001 I was head of administrative communication in a local council in Denmark. There... more From 1999 to 2001 I was head of administrative communication in a local council in Denmark. There I was responsible for authoring and publishing service information pamphlets. I never had any complaints from the citizens who were supposed to read the pamphlets. And that made me worried. So worried that I have now spent a year analysing not only the pamphlets, but also their reception in the target population. In this article I shall make a genre analysis of the service information pamphlet and I shall compare the results of the genre analysis with the basic results of the reception analysis.
Journalism Studies, 2015
Meta framing and polyphonic structures: A case study of news reporting in sports journalism.
SAGE Open, 2014
Changing the language in an organization is a major organizational change. In this article, I dis... more Changing the language in an organization is a major organizational change. In this article, I discuss some of the organizational challenges for one specific language change implementation, taking the stance that language change must be treated as any other organizational change for it to have an effect. I work with the case of the Danish tax authorities' language project aimed at producing more readable letters. The empirical data that I work with are two qualitative informant interviews. One recorded at the language project's headquarters where they lay out the general lines for the project, and the other at the payment center where they use the revised letters.