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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Literary texts are already written before they get read, and they are therefore not subject to chance in the same way as encounters in everyday life. However, at the same time, these texts often manage to evoke a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This paper develops the notion of metonymy scenarios by exploring the social and cognitive dimensions of various creative uses of metonymy in a collection of digital banners created for the Global Climate Strike movement. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The present corpus study, which is grounded in Appraisal Theory, investigates evaluative language use in fake news in English. The primary aim is to find out how and why, if at all, evaluative meanings are construed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In this article, we develop a framework for the analysis of ‘movement’ in literary texts. We focus on characters, translation and transmission, thereby going beyond, on the one hand, a stylistic analysis of individual ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(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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The fact that there are (at least) two different translations of the English preposition for used to describe duration in Portuguese, namely durante and por, shows that duration is an interesting area in the tense and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
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This study focuses on the seemingly simple grammatical category of adjectives. However, the framework adopted for analysing adjectives from both a cross-linguistic and a cross-register perspective highlights ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In this article, we discuss expertise by considering the activity of reading. Cognitive scientists have traditionally conceptualised reading as a single, well-defined task, namely the decoding of letter sequences into ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Un enfoque sociolingüístico de la transferencia del sufijo quechua -ri al español en los bolivianos que residen en Oslo.
Optimal relevance analysis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Against Settler Time: Thematic Temporality in the Poetry of Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While literature is often used as a source of examples and illustrations across disciplines, literary studies tends to be underrepresented in interdisciplinary exchanges. Perhaps the reason lies in a lack of understanding ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This study investigates all-cleft constructions in the London–Lund Corpora of spoken British English. It has two aims: an empirical and a methodological one. The empirical aim is to contribute to research on spoken discourse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Resumen En esta tesis se investiga el uso de los recursos audiovisuales en la enseñanza de ELE (español como lengua extranjera) en los centros de bachillerato de Noruega. El muestreo de la investigación consiste en 8 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Los otros cuentos, Relatos del Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos: ¿cómo reflejan la lucha zapatista y el pensamiento decolonial? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Resumen En resumen, la tesis examina la manera en que una selección de textos de Los otros cuentos, Relatos del Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos reflejan la lucha zapatista y el pensamiento decolonial. Aborda diversos ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter discusses one of the master concepts in the Western classical tradition, kairos (“the opportune moment”), and interrogates its function in a poem dating from the Long Reformation, a period that thrived on ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Both kairos and human time perception are inextricably bound up with the present, which – as Saint Augustine commented – is scattered into tiny fragments. Kairos may well be the temporal concept we need for productively ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Focussing on a passage from Heart of Darkness, this chapter discusses how Conrad’s perspective is shaped, enriched and complicated by the ways in which the fictional characters, narrators and listeners interact – both in ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
U engleskom su jeziku koordinacijski veznici (both…and, either…or, neither…nor i dr.) češći u pisanom nego u razgovornom diskursu, a osobito su uobičajeni u pisanom akademskom diskursu kojem osiguravaju karakterističnu ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis focuses on the semantic change within farming-related nouns in the Paston letters. This is done by extensively searching the Paston letters in the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, where seventeen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg fire historiske romaner av den norske folkeskribenten Rudolf Muus (1862-1935). Undersøkelsene er gjort med en bokhistorisk og sjangerteoretisk tilnærming. Felles for analysene er refleksjoner ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Mine barn Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
La presente investigación busca indagar el lugar que ocupa el multilingüismo en la enseñanza de ELE en la escuela noruega, especialmente luego de la implementación del plan curricular, LK20 (KD, 2022), el cual destaca la ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan fortelleren i Vivian Gornicks memoar, The Odd Woman and the City, opplever seg selv i lys av by, vandring, venner og eget liv. Selvframstilling og selvforståelse er et overordnet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
En komparativ analyse av Et dukkehjem og Mrs. Dalloway
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Romanen har lenge vært en kilde til forståelse av samfunnet, og Teju Cole sin roman Open City fra 2011, er en roman som tematiserer hvordan livet som flerkulturell innbygger i New York og Brussels, utarter seg innenfor en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines how Christian Anglo-American ideas about religion and nature, and the relationship between the two, has affected the establishment of the National Parks System and the legislation of nature and religious ...
Fantastikkens enestående jenter. En analyse av kvinnerelasjoner i Siri Pettersens Ravneringene og Philip Pullmans His dark materials. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven analyserer jeg fremstillingen av kvinnerelasjonene i Philip Pullmans His dark materials og Siri Pettersens Ravneringene. Jeg bruker disse som en inngang til å undersøke fremstillingen av kvinnerelasjoner ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Resumen Esta tesis argumenta la existencia de raíces populistas en los corridos bandoleros de la época colombiana de La Violencia. Anteriormente varios autores han asociado el surgimiento de olas bandoleras con problemas ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
El concepto de «zona», acuñado por el escritor argentino Juan José Saer en su primera publicación de 1960, define un lugar de enunciación y también un registro formal en tensión con las escrituras del contemporáneo boom ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven utforsker passivitet som tema i Ottessa Moshfeghs roman My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). Jeg undersøker hvordan dette temaet berøres gjennom romanens ulike forestillinger om selvhjelp, søvn og kunst. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven foretar en analyse av James Joyces Finnegans Wake med fokus på språk, drøm og incest. Disse tre aspektene ved verket blir analysert på bakgrunn av psykoanalytisk teori, i tillegg til den teoretiske og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis delves deeper into an analysis of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park (1814) and its relevance within the abolitionist discourse. Following Edward Said’s influential work, Culture and Imperialism (1993), Austen’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This chapter investigates passive constructions with an expletive subject, labelled as impersonal passives. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) provides material for comparison across both constructions and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Materialet for oppgaven min er den norske fotballitteraturen fra 1990-tallet, hovedsakelig bøker skrevet av norske forfattere om verdensmesterskapene i fotball i 1994 og 1998. Planen er å undersøke hvordan disse ulike ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Este estudio argumenta que La hora de despertarnos juntos de Kirmen Uribe, Patria de Fernando Aramburu y Maixabel de Bollaín crean una nueva narrativa del conflicto vasco que provoca un cambio del ethos del presente en el ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Fantasy authors are freer in their creation than most writers who are bound by a commitment to realism and mimesis, freer even than those within other Speculative Fiction genres. Focusing on a cross-section of High Fantasy ...
“Work apace”: Ideology and Profit in Two Early Modern Plays Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Gendered Islamophobia is a term used to describe the difference in how Muslim women are affected differently by Islamophobia than Muslim men. This includes how the differences in the portrayal of Muslim women in the media ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
В данной работе проанализировано взаимодействие грамматических категорий вида и наклонения в русских библейских оптативных конструкциях с компонентом «да» книги Бытия в Синодальном переводе на фоне параллельных конструкций ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Er similer (f.eks. ballettdansere er som sommerfugler) og metaforer (f. eks. ballettdansere er sommerfugler) forskjellige, eller er metaforer egentlig implisitte similer? I denne studien undersøker jeg dette spørsmålet ved ...
English emphasizers and their correspondences in Norwegian Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hva som skjer når man fortolker Emma (1815) av Jane Austen og Jane Eyre (1847) av Charlotte Brontë med utgangspunkt i bipersonene. Analysen har et narratologisk premiss og vektlegger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Melankoliens uttrykk i septologiens form og innhold undersøker hvordan Jon Fosses septologi uttrykker melankoli i både form og innhold. Det undersøkes ulike trekk ved romanene, og trekkene knyttes opp mot sinnsstemning og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In 1980s America, there was a strong push towards the far right politically, religiously, and culturally. As moral and Satanic panics swept the nation, conservative groups and activists flourished. One conservative endeavor ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In this thesis, I analyze a selection of works of hypertext fiction, created in various software, published through different avenues, and under different labels, published between 1995 and 2015. A common theme among the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
La compétence communicative a pendant plusieurs décennies été au centre de l’enseignement du FLE. Pourtant, les méthodes de l’enseignement et la manière dont les différentes composantes de cette compétence sont définies ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Å skrive i krigens spor. Den blanke skriften og den indirekte skildringen av andre verdenskrig Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines the relation between the human and the non-human in two novels by J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K. The thesis focuses in particular on the way that the novels ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Este artigo apresenta o Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP) em profundidade. Documenta a sua motivação, as escolhas feitas, o desenrolar do processo de organização, a avaliação conjunta, e os resultados que podemos ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A primeira edição do Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP) foi uma avaliação conjunta de soluções computacionais para a identificação de personagens em textos literários, bem como a extração de características ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Neste artigo é descrita em pormenor a tarefa de identificação de relações familiares no Desafio de Identificação de Personagens (DIP), uma avaliação conjunta para identificar personagens em textos literários em português. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Concern for global warming, climate change and pollution has grown in recent years, with countries across the world facing natural disasters on unprecedented scales. The communication of environmental protection is therefore ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Diese Arbeit vergleicht die Darstellung der DDR- und Nach-Wende-Erfahrungen mit Krebs, anhand der persönlichen Krankheitsberichte von Maxie Wander und Charlotte Link. Verglichen werden die Werke Leben wär‘ eine prima ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Abstract The thesis seeks to explore the construction and expression of masculinity in the two American works, Moonlight (2016) a film directed by Barry Jenkins, and James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room. (1956). Both works ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Les camps de migrants dans la région de Calais ont existé depuis la fin des années 90. La ville de Calais est située au bord de la Manche, seulement 34 kilomètres de l’Angleterre. De nombreux migrants s’installent donc à ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Through a reading of Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), this thesis attempts to define the genre-characteristics of the biomythography. The ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is about how shame is a big factor in homosexual relationships. It specifically analyzes the relationship between Oliver and Elio in Call Me by Your Name, a novel written by Andre Aciman. My claim is that the ...
”The letter killeth” Religion, Marriage and Gender in Jude the Obscure Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Abstract: This thesis explores Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, focusing on the way Hardy critiqued not only religious institutions and their influence on the institution of marriage to further remain in control in society, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Diese Arbeit ist von der Masterarbeit von Johanna Toresen (2020) inspiriert, die den Übergang vom Deutschunterricht an der Schule zum Deutschstudium untersuchte. Diese Arbeit untersucht inwiefern der Grammatikunterricht ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores contemporary retellings of the myth of Persephone in the romance genre as a platform where dominant gendered discourses of consent are challenged and disrupted and alternative discourses of sexual ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven tar utgangspunkt i at norske spansklærere etterspør konkrete undervisningsmetoder og veiledning for å undervise i selvregulert læring (SRL). I tillegg kan forskning tyde på at skandinaviske elever har ...
Battling the Goodlady: Utilisation of Gothic Devices as Critical Tools in Postcolonial Contexts Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change.
How do you become a citizen? Ever since ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis re-examines the Scottish migration to the province of Ulster, Ireland in the early seventeenth century, from 1603-1625. The Plantation of Ulster, initiated by the English government in 1609, marked the beginning ...
"They have so much to be afraid of": Exploring Women's Relationship with the Home in the Modern Female Gothic Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Verbal Irony in Literary Discourse Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the ideological frameworks in Roald Dahl´s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny the Champion of the World. Through a close reading and with elements from childist theory the thesis discusses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This master’s thesis identifies and discusses how the roots of Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel Klara and the Sun are grounded in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Comparisons are drawn between the two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The classic novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published in 1869 and has been adapted several times to the stage, film, and TV to this day. Through the years, the adaptations have given updated and unique readings ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This corpus-based study contributes to the ongoing discussion on conventional politeness markers, such as please, by being the first to examine how the corresponding Norwegian lexical item vennligst ‘please’ is used. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis aimed to investigate how Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) provides social commentary through representation of racism and discrimination in America. In order to examine this representation, I utilized two different ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper reports on a cross-linguistic study of ‘be’ verbs in Czech, English and Norwegian, viz. být, be and være, drawing on data from the fiction part of the International Comparable Corpus (Čermáková et al. 2021). The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Diese Masterarbeit ist eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung von entdeckendem Lernen bei der Wortschatzarbeit. Wortschatzarbeit und entdeckendes Lernen bilden den Ausgangspunkt. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Theorien ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Die Arbeit setzt bei der Frage an, wie in Albers Tnugdalus mit unterschiedlichen Räumen und Erzählebenen im Verhältnis zueinander umgegangen wird. Im Vordergrund der Analyse stehen die Fragen des Raumwechsels und der ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The thesis analyzes and compares how the narrators of "The Awakening" (1899), by Kate Chopin, and "Sister Carrie" (1900), by Theodore Dreiser, represent the selves of the novels’ two protagonists, Edna Pontellier and Carrie ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Oppgaven er en oversettelse av utdrag på 20 sider fra den russiske straffeloven. Dette er juridisk oversettelse fra russisk til norsk. Oppgaven er tredelt. I oppgavens første del skriver jeg om hensikten med denne oversettelse, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article presents initial findings from the first systematic investigation of /2mm/, a disyllabic bilabial-nasal response particle pronounced with the specific high-low-high wave form of the East Norwegian ‘second tonal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Verbs such as seem and appear combine features of evidential meaning with epistemic modality. This study takes a corpus-based, contrastive view of such verbs in Norwegian and English. It investigates the frequencies, ...