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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study investigates phraseological units produced by Norwegian secondary school students (aged 13 to 17) writing in English L2. The study employs association measure as a way of calculating the collocational strength ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This chapter argues for the necessity of a cognitive and holistic approach to autofiction—an approach that considers textual signposts in combination with the cognitive-affective dynamics of a text’s production and reception. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Hedging strategies, i.e. downtoning expressions or expressions of tentativeness or possibility, are ubiquitous in most, if not all, languages. However, hedging is often realised differently across languages, making such ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This corpus-based study examines the expression of synthetic diminutives in the often assumed “non-emotive” language of English and the emotive language of Spanish. The topic of diminution is approached through a quantitative ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Using English as a lingua franca is different from using it as a foreign language for communication with native speakers. English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as the use of English among communicators of different ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)En komparativ analyse av Et dukkehjem og Mrs. Dalloway
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Sociolinguistics is a field that covers the relation between language and society. Over the past decades, there has been an increasing interest in language use, and the impact of societal variables on language. Attitudes ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Thomas Mores (1478–1535) Utopia (1516) har blitt lest jevnt og trutt i over 500 år. Siden 1970-tallet har verket vært gjenstand for ulike feministiske tolkninger og perspektiver. I denne oppgaven forsøker jeg meg på en ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Neste artigo exploramos várias potencialidades que os ambientes da Gramateca e da Literateca permitem aos usuários interessados na pesquisa em língua portuguesa. Por um lado, apresentamos estes ambientes dando conta de ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The aim of the study is to show the role of the Italian expression devo dire in different contexts of use. The analysis is based on the approach elaborated in the studies of scholars belonging to the group of the French ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)How does one describe a crucial moment, a moment that calls for action? What kinds of time are opened, disclosed, or foreclosed in such moments? This section explores a concept that has a long history in rhetoric and ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Non-standardised early vernaculars present a problem for search tools due to the high degree of variation. The challenge lies in the variation found in orthography, syntax, and lexicon between titles, incipits, and explicits ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis explores the narrative strategies of Lydia Davis’s short fiction. Based on close readings from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and Can’t and Won’t, I argue that Davis’s textual practice has feminist ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Indefinites face competition at two levels: Presupposition and content. The antipresupposition hypothesis predicts that they signal the opposite of familiarity, or uniqueness, namely, novelty, or non-uniqueness. At the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Ce mémoire présente les résultats d'une étude comparative sur l'absentéisme pour raisons de santé entre la Norvège et la France pour la période 2000-2013. Les observations du mémoire affirment que le système d'indemnisation ...