Anne Marit Foss

• Foss, Anne Marit (2022). Nærhet og felleskap. En sosialsemiotisk analyse av Den norske kirkes videoserie Ord for natten. RASK: Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation. ISSN 0909-8976. s. 95–113. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2020). "Å være kirke på nett". En sosialsemiotisk undersøkelse av nettpresentasjonene til de skandinaviske folkekirkene. Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication. 10, s. 47–66. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2018). Den norske kirke på nett. Mellompersonlig posisjonering og forhandling. I Hipkiss, Anna Maria; Holmberg, Per; Olvegård, Lotta; Thyberg, Kajsa & Ängsal, Magnus P. (Red.), Grammatik, kritik, didaktik. Nordiska studier i systemisk-funktionell lingvistik och sosialsemiotik.. Göteborgs universitet. ISSN 9789187850707. s. 97–116. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2015). Kulturmøter på religiøse nettsider. En sosialsemiotisk analyse av dialogiske rom i trossamfunns nettpresentasjoner. I Engebretsen, Martin (Red.), Det tredje språket: Multimodale studier av interkulturell kommunikasjon i kunst, skole og samfunnsliv. Portal forlag. ISSN 9788283140361. s. 282–296. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Foss, Anne Marit (2018). Misjon og mediering. En undersøkelse av de skandinaviske folkekirkenes selvpresentasjoner på nett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2015). Trossamfunns selvrepresentasjoner på nett: Modalitet og medialisering. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2015). Religiøsitet og tro på nett: kristne trossamfunns selvrepresentasjoner på nett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Foss, Anne Marit (2024). Det dialogiske rommet : Sosialsemiotiske tekststudier av mellompersonlig mening på kristne trossamfunns nettsider. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284272085. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis examines Christian churches’ official web representations, using social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as theoretical frameworks. Communication about faith, practice, and community is, and has always been, a central part of what it means to be a church. This thesis discusses how the churches choose to communicate with a broad and diverse audience in a situation where the established Christian communities are losing some of their traditional position and the media landscape is continuously changing. Among the basic assumptions in social semiotics and SFL is that all texts embody three lines of meaning, called metafunctions. This thesis emphasizes the interpersonal metafunction and starts from the premise that, in all texts, a sender role is formed while the reader or listener is invited to adopt a certain receiver role. These entities, which are not identical to the actual readers and writers, are referred to in this thesis as the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the-text. The overall research question for this thesis has been formulated as follows: How is the relationship between the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the-text constructed in a selection of online texts published by Christian religious communities? The thesis is article-based. The four articles examine digital religious communication as texts, using tools related to the interpersonal metafunction. The main focus in all four articles is verbal language, but three of the articles include the visual and multimodal interplay to some extent. In the first article, two websites are examined; one published by the Salvation Army and one by the Catholic Church in Oslo. The second article analyses three websites published by the Church of Norway. The third article explores the homepages of the three majority churches in Scandinavia. The final article examines a video series published on the Church of Norway's Facebook page. The first article employs a broad analytical framework related to the interpersonal metafunction and discusses how and to what extent the two selected online texts invite dialogue and negotiation. The second article has a somewhat narrower focus, primarily examining how the writer-in-the-text relates to other possible voices or positions through an analysis of the Engagement system within Appraisal and who is included and excluded in the «we-community» that is established. The third article discusses how the role of the three Scandinavian majority churches is constructed, with a dual focus on which aspects of the churches' activities are emphasised verbally or visually and how the dialogue between the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the-text is shaped through the choice of speech acts and pronouns. The fourth article investigates how visual choices contribute to creating a sense of community and closeness and how the choice of speech acts, pronouns, and evaluations (analysed using the Appraisal framework) shapes the relationship between the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the-text. The theoretical foundation and findings are discussed in the extended abstract. By applying various analytical approaches related to the interpersonal metafunction, this thesis describes how the relationship between the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the-text is constructed and finds that the relationship is generally characterized by an invitation to community, dialogue, and negotiation to some extent. Yet, an asymmetrical relationship is constructed between the two text-internal participants. This asymmetry is primarily related to the institutional authority the churches and religious traditions hold.

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